Before A Christmas Carol made the Christmas we know today, there were over eighteen hundred of them.
11: Christmas Pre-Dickens
“Low the tide, low the light, Comes the sun again”
After a few centuries of arguing when to have Christmas, Christians settled for December and mostly stuck to that. Charlemagne popularised being crowned on Christmas Day, and William the Conqueror followed his example. Feasts and gift-giving and caroling came in, and James VI and I had plays put on every Christmas night, so can be partially blamed for panto season.
Sir Gawain And The Green Knight starts at King Arthur’s Christmas / New Year feast, as Pendragon GMs should know.
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