Lucia Pageant @ SWEA Swedish Jul Market, George Brown Waterfront Campus, Toronto 2025-11-23 2pm

The SWEA Annual X-Mas-Jul Fair and Julmarknad (Yule Market) took place over the weekend on Nov.22-23, 2025 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, 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... Old Norse and Runic studies Prof.Henrik Williams' The Rune Blog, University of Uppsala, Sweden https://www.runforum.nordiska.uu.se/b... Prof.Henrik Williams - The Rök Runestone in Sweden with Jackson Crawford    • The Rök Runestone (with Dr. Henrik Williams)   Futhark : International Journal of Runic Studies http://futhark-journal.com/ American Association of Runic Studies https://runicstudies.org/ Allsherjargode    / @allsherjargode