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I have met with no word of which there are so many and such different etymologies as this of Yule, of which there seems nothing certain but that it means Christmas. Some writers, including the venerable Bede, derive it from _hveol_, the Anglo-Saxon form of our modern English word wheel, which, as I have already shown, is one of the Aryan types of the sun. Bede, I think, assigns the true meaning to the term when he says it is so named
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According to Mr. Davies (Cel. Res. p. 191), the god Bel or Beli was called Hu. Mallet in his
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Northern Antiquities, says:--
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All Celtic nations have been accustomed to the worship of the sun; either as distinguished from Thor, (? Bel)
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This objection, however, falls to the ground with the discovery of the fact that both languages have a common origin, and that the several races and their superstitions are but separate developments of Aryan blood and Aryan mythology. In modern Welsh _gwyl_ means a festival or holiday, and this may be the true root of the word _gule_, in the phrase
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or Lammas-day. But the Welsh _gwyl_ may itself be derived from the same root as _yule_, which, to our ears, now only signifies, as Brand says,
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Christmas, or the festive season. _Heulo_, in modern Welsh, means to