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====Months, heiti and kennings==== [[File:Die Gartenlaube (1880) b 856.jpg|thumb|500px|Illustration of an ancient Nordic Yule festival (''[[Die Gartenlaube]]'', 1880)]] Yule is attested early in the history of the Germanic peoples; in a [[Gothic language]] calendar of the 5–6th century CE it appears in the month name ''{{lang|got|fruma jiuleis}}'', and, in the 8th century, the English historian [[Bede]] wrote that the [[Anglo-Saxon]] calendar included the months {{lang|ang|geola}} or {{lang|ang|giuli}} corresponding to either modern December or December and January.<ref name="SIMEK379">{{harvcoltxt|Simek|2007|p=379}}.</ref> While the Old Norse month name ''{{lang|non|ýlir}}'' is similarly attested, the Old Norse corpus also contains numerous references to an event by the Old Norse form of the name, ''{{lang|non|jól}}''. In chapter 55 of the ''[[Prose Edda]]'' book ''{{lang|non|[[Skáldskaparmál]]}}'', different names for the [[áss|gods]] are given; one is "Yule-beings" ({{langx|non|jólnar}}). A work by the [[skald]] [[Eyvindr skáldaspillir]] that uses the term is then quoted: "again we have produced Yule-being's feast [mead of poetry], our rulers' eulogy, like a bridge of masonry".<ref name="FAULKES133">{{harvcoltxt|Faulkes|1995|p=133}}.</ref> In addition, one of the numerous [[list of names of Odin|names of Odin]] is ''{{lang|non|Jólnir}}'', referring to the event.<ref name="SIMEK180-181">{{harvcoltxt|Simek|2007|pp=180–181}}.</ref>
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