n. YULE, Christmas; festum nativitatis Domini :-- On geól at Christmas, L. Alf. pol. 5; Th. i. 64, 23, note: Menol. Fox 59, note a. Ðý twelftan dæge ofer geóhol Epiphaniæ, Bd. 4, 19; S. 588, 8. Feówertig daga ǽr eástran and feówertig daga ǽr Cristes acennisse ðæt is ǽr geólum fourty days before Easter and fourty days before Christ's birth, that is, before Christmas, Shrn. 82, 11. [Dan. juul: Swed. jul, m: O. Nrs. jól, n. pl. festum jolense, festum natalitiorum Christi, festum quodvis, convivium.] For this and the next word