The Yule Log article also has false information on the Yule Log and Candle Origin. Candles were used by Christians and many other religions. Christmas lights originated from candles.
The Yule Log was always a Log. The Chrismas Tree was adopted from Celtic tradition in Briton under the Holy Roman Empire. The custom was to dig up a living tree, bring it inside and take it back outside and plant the tree, not set it on fire.
Somehow this writer twisted several different historical accounts into one, mostly-false story.
Another note: Yule originated in Scandinavia but so too did the Germanic people. Anglo Saxons and other Germanic people carried the customs of their Norse ancestors south on foot, generations before the Viking Era. Given what we know of history it's likely these traditions all came together in what is now known as England, where the Romans brought Cristianity to the Celtic Britons, then The Anglo Saxons mixed in their culture while converting to Christianity and later the Normans arrived with a variation of what the Saxons had already brought.
We don't have specific records of cultural appropriation but we do know the Saxons in England converted to Christianity before missionaries from Rome (the city, after the fall of the Empire) brought Christianity to Germany which was long before reaching Scandinavia.
The other possibility is the Frankish Invasion of Gaul: When France stopped being Latin speaking Gauls (Celts) and started to convert the Germanic Franks to Christianity.
It was assuredly somewhere where Latin, Germanic and Celtic languages collided that the 3 separate religions combined customs which would mainly be France and England. As for Ireland and Scotland, there's no official record of any Norse influence and for both of those states, English came after it had already been mixed with Latin and Britton (British Celtic language). We only know that on the whole, Roman and Norman Invasion failed in Ireland and Scottland and that Roman Invasion failed in Germany (Germans already being of Norman decent, having pushed Celts out of Germany).
The Yule Log article also has false information on the Yule Log and Candle Origin. Candles were used by Christians and many other religions. Christmas lights originated from candles.
The Yule Log was always a Log. The Chrismas Tree was adopted from Celtic tradition in Briton under the Holy Roman Empire. The custom was to dig up a living tree, bring it inside and take it back outside and plant the tree, not set it on fire.
Somehow this writer twisted several different historical accounts into one, mostly-false story.
Another note: Yule originated in Scandinavia but so too did the Germanic people. Anglo Saxons and other Germanic people carried the customs of their Norse ancestors south on foot, generations before the Viking Era. Given what we know of history it's likely these traditions all came together in what is now known as England, where the Romans brought Cristianity to the Celtic Britons, then The Anglo Saxons mixed in their culture while converting to Christianity and later the Normans arrived with a variation of what the Saxons had already brought.
We don't have specific records of cultural appropriation but we do know the Saxons in England converted to Christianity before missionaries from Rome (the city, after the fall of the Empire) brought Christianity to Germany which was long before reaching Scandinavia.
The other possibility is the Frankish Invasion of Gaul: When France stopped being Latin speaking Gauls (Celts) and started to convert the Germanic Franks to Christianity.
It was assuredly somewhere where Latin, Germanic and Celtic languages collided that the 3 separate religions combined customs which would mainly be France and England. As for Ireland and Scotland, there's no official record of any Norse influence and for both of those states, English came after it had already been mixed with Latin and Britton (British Celtic language). We only know that on the whole, Roman and Norman Invasion failed in Ireland and Scottland and that Roman Invasion failed in Germany (Germans already being of Norman decent, having pushed Celts out of Germany).