Editing Yule (section)

====Significance and connection to other events====
Scholar [[Rudolf Simek]] says the pagan Yule feast "had a pronounced religious character" and that "it is uncertain whether the Germanic Yule feast still had a function in the cult of the dead and in the veneration of the ancestors, a function which the mid-winter sacrifice certainly held for the West European [[Stone Age|Stone]] and [[Bronze Age]]s." The traditions of the [[Yule log]], [[Yule Goat|Yule goat]], Yule boar ''{{lang|non|[[Sonargöltr]]}},'' [[Wassailing|Yule singing]], and others possibly have connections to pre-Christian Yule customs, which Simek says "indicates the significance of the feast in pre-Christian times."''<ref name="SIMEK-379-380">{{harvcoltxt|Simek|2007|pp=379–380}}.</ref>''

Scholars have connected the month event and Yule period to the [[Wild Hunt]] (a ghostly procession in the winter sky), the god Odin (who is attested in Germanic areas as leading the Wild Hunt and bears the name ''{{lang|non|Jólnir}}''), and increased supernatural activity, such as the Wild Hunt and the increased activities of {{lang|non|[[draugr|draugar]]}}—undead beings who walk the earth.<ref name="SIMEK-AND-ORCHARD">{{harvcoltxt|Simek|2007|pp=180–181, 379–380}} and {{harvcoltxt|Orchard|1997|p=187}}.</ref>

{{lang|ang|[[Mōdraniht]]}}, an event focused on collective female beings attested by Bede as having occurred among the [[Anglo-Saxon paganism|heathen Anglo-Saxons]] when Christians celebrated Christmas Eve, has been seen as further evidence of a fertility event during the Yule period.<ref name="ORCHARD187">{{harvcoltxt|Orchard|1997|p=187}}.</ref>