↟ GOD JUÓL! ❄️

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🎄 Julen är en mycket gammal Skandinavisk tradition som ursprungligen har sina rötter i de gamla germanernas vintersolståndsfirande och Juólblót/Midvinterblot. I fornnordisk tradition har ingen annan högtid haft lika stor betydelse och de äldsta skriftliga källorna finns i det så kallade Haraldskvädet från 900-talet. Där talas det om att kungen velat: "Drikku Juól/Jólnir - som kan refereras till att dricka för de nordiska gudarna, (främst Frej och Oden) samt önska för välmående och ett gott nytt år - vilket är det ursprungliga uttrycket för julfirande. Dock infaller den ursprungliga tiden för julen egentligen senare, mer om det i ett kommande inlägg!

🧙‍♂️ Under julnatten ansågs förfäderna komma tillbaka till gården och därför lämnade man mat och dryck framme. Den viktigaste gestalten denna tid på året och långt in... - fortsättning i kommentar nedan ⬇️

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↟ Midvinterblot/Juól/Hókunótt - Guóð Juól ↟

❄️ Native Scandinavians in Sweden celebrating Juól and Midvinterblot at full moon. Today, January 7, marks Midwinter and the first full moon occur after the Winter Solstice here in Scandinavia. This is one of the most important dates in our pre-Christian culture, and according to our Old Norse calendar the original celebration of Juól/Yule takes place today together with Juólblót/Midvinterblot. Yule is a very old Scandinavian tradition that originally has it's roots in the old Germanic Winter Solstice celebrations and Midvinterblot.

❄️ It is the second blót that Odin enacts in the Ynglinga Saga, a blót during midwinter that lasts three nights. In the sources, midwinter is referred to as "Hókunótt" and it was at Hókunótt that the heathen Yule was celebrated. This blót is much disputed, but one thing that is certain is that Yule was not... - continues in comment below! ⬇️

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↟ Native Scandinavian in traditional folk custome from Västerbotten with a Näverlur, Sweden 🇸🇪

Näverlur - Lúðrblást, Norse Hornblést (Birch Horn), is an ancient traditional Scandinavian instrument made of wood of fir and birch. The instrument is dating back 1100 years ago and the oldest Näverlur that has been found in Sweden can be tracked back as far as 900s.

The Näverlur is associated with the old Scandinavian "fäbod-culture" where it was used to attract the animals to come home, scare predators, to keep evil forest creatures away (creatures form our Scandinavian folklore), and to send different messages to other villages over long distances. The sound from a Näverlur has the capacity to travel up to more than 5 kilometres.

There are different melodies for different messages and it was usually women who used these horns. Each one could play in a unique melody that revealed whom... - continues in comment below ⬇️

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