Yule is a log or a clog. As wooden rollers, logs have ever since been used as roller bearings to relocate heavy loads on the ground. The sense of a Wheel is related to the word hjul. As in French huit for eight is pronounced wheet it is as close as one can come with hjul and Wheel of old English hweol. Compare with hvel of old Norwegian and hiughl of old Swedish to mean "to go round" in a circle" as a Wheel to roll or the rotation of Time. A circle has no beginning and no end, only a path that allows the living to spend their time in it as long as they may to endure and pursue it. So does the Saga continue to describe the actions and reactions in various regional Things that differ in Matter and Affairs from one People to another.
There is nothing one can do about the Darkness but burn Wood to Light it up. With Yule comes Yuletide and Yule-time to celebrate a Pagan Winter Festival and to burn the Yule Log to make the mood for a Yule Song and to roast the catch at the Wild Hunt of a Boar around Winter Solstice.
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