Yule, in the form of the Midwinter Blot, is the great midwinter festival of modern Heathenry (Asatru, the revival of the pre-Christian Norse and Germanic religion), kept around the winter solstice. It looks back to the jol attested in the medieval Icelandic sagas and in Snorri Sturluson's account of the old religion, where Yule was the greatest feast of the heathen year, spanning the darkest part of winter and kept with sacrifice (blot), feasting and heavy drinking in honour of the gods and the ancestors. The medieval sources record offerings made "for a good year and for peace", oaths sworn over sacred objects, and toasts (full) raised over the drinking-horn to Odin, to the departed and to kin.
Modern Heathens reconstruct the festival from these sources, keeping a blot (now typically an offering of food and drink poured out, rather than animal sacrifice), a sumbel (a formal round of toasts and pledges over the horn), and a feast, often renewing bonds with the gods and the ancestors and swearing oaths for the coming year. Fires, evergreens, and the Yule boar and log belong to the season, and many such customs later merged with Christmas, a genuine overlap that modern Heathens both draw on and seek to distinguish from the Christian feast. As a deliberate revival grounded in the textual record, the Midwinter Blot exemplifies the reconstructionist temper of modern Heathenry, which builds its practice from the surviving medieval evidence for the old religion.