The Danes imported by force a different Christmas tradition when they invaded. The idea of the Yule log, which is an enormous log that each would have bumped on the fire,. And then we sort of move into the medieval European medieval Christmas and the word Merry. It's not very often used in everyday parlance, apart from next to the word Christmas - generally nowadays.
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers and Flo Read sit down with founder of The Idler magazine, Tom Hodgkinson, to discuss the fraught history of the winter festival and the moral good in having a merry Christmas.
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