Toronto Swedish Folkdancers and Singers SWEA X-Mas Fair @ George Brown Waterfront 2.15pm 2024-11-23

The SWEA Annual X-Mas-Jul Fair and Julmarknad (Yule Market) took place over the weekend on Nov.23-24, 2024 at George Brown College Waterfront Campus in downtown Toronto in the Queen's Quay area on Lake Ontario. The were various vendors with Scandinavian goods, food and drinks available. Thanks to all of the volunteers and organizers of the event, which has been running for many decades in Toronto.

The Lucia pageant and the Toronto Swedish Folkdancers and Singers performed several times and the day ended with a dance around the X-Mas-Yule tree.

Toronto Swedish Folkdancers & Singers
http://tsfs.ca/
  / torontoswedishfolkdancersandsingers  

Swedish Women's Educational Association (SWEA) Toronto
https://swedishchristmasfair.ca/
https://toronto.swea.org/
  / sweatoronto  
  / sweatoronto  

Swedish Lucia Tradition - Bringer of Light
https://www.scandinavianarchaeology.c...

In Scandinavia and traditionally in Germanic cultures, X-Mas is called Jul, pronounced Yule in English. Yuletide means Jul-time. It is one of the most important traditional festivals during the year, coinciding with the Winter Solstice Dec.21-22, the shortest day of the year. Midsommar (Midsummer) is another important festival on the Swedish calendar, on the Summer Solstice June 21-22, on the longest day of the year.

The scientific explanation of the solstices, equinoxes, day, night and the seasons is that they are created by the unique relationship between the Earth and Sun. The Earth rotates on an angle, called the axial tilt every day, and revolves around the Sun once a year. Longer cycles affecting the shape of the Earth's revolving course around the Sun every 100,000 years, called Milankovitch cycles, cause the periodic ice ages.

Scandinavian Christmas Traditions - Ancient Yule
https://www.scandinavianchristmastrad...

German X-Mas Traditions
https://germanfoods.org/german-food-f...

Samfundet Forn Sed
https://www.samfundetfornsed.se/

Forn Siðr
https://www.fornsidr.dk/

Germanische Glaubens-Gemeinschaft
https://www.germanische-glaubens-geme...

Free e-books about Scandinavian traditions in English published by Rasmus Anderson (1846-1936) on Internet Archive
https://archive.org/search.php?query=...

The Religion of the Teutons - Chantepie de la Saussaye
https://archive.org/details/religiono...