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394 jæ [jǣ], a low-lying spit of land covered by water at flood-tide; a bank in the sea, see further ,

jøger [jø̄gər],, pain and swelling of the wrist, see further $n$ and $2$,

jøl [jøl],, Christmas festival; now mostly applied to the last week of December, the time from Christmas Eve till the New Year, but also in an old and more extended sense, of the time from Christmas Eve till the 17th of January, in all, 24 Christmas holidays (not including the day of Christmas Eve). The 17th of January, the extreme limit for Christmas, is now commonly called “four and twentieth (f. and twenty) day”, and “,” formerly also “Antonmass” or “St. Antony’s day”. As it is only recently that the new, or Gregorian Calender, has found its way into Shetland, there are still rural districts where they reckon according to the older, or Julian Calendar, from the 5th of January to the 29th of January (6th of Jan. was Christmas Day), and this was until quite recently the usual custom outside Lerwick. Beside the form, an older form [jøls] is found, reported from Unst.: de, Christmas, Christmas-time, but, on the other hand, in the phrase: “to had ”, to keep Christmas. — jól,  , Christmas,  and yule, The  form  has its origin in Old Northern usage. The vowel-sound ø is not, on the other hand, regularly developed from ó, but is rather influenced by yule, yuyll ( the “blø̆d, gø̆d” from  “bluid, gude or guid” =  blood, good). An older form [jol (jɔl)] is found in the ,  and [*jólagrát- and *jólagráta]; [goli]- by corruption from *- [ jóla, ] in the  , [*jólastinga], to make “Christmas-stitches" or wide stitches; see that, as well as “-steik”,

jølbromek [jøl·brom·ək],, a fat ewe, slaughtered at Christmas-time.
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jøl [jøl]-fire,, Christmas-fire, a great, blazing fire.

jølger [jølger],, rapid motion in the sea ; see further under , ,

jøl-girs [jølge‘rs (-gə‘rs)], , meadowsweet, spiræa ulmaria. The plant was in former times commonly used for dyeing wadmal black, hence the name blackin’ girs or black-girs [‘grass’]. — in “-girs” has hardly any association with the above-treated, Christmas, but is more the same word as jóll,  (see G. Vigf. and Eg.), and  jol,, wild angelica, angelica sylvestris, jóli (later “njóli”) in kvannjóli,, the stalk of “kvonn” or angelica archangelica; kvann-jol and kvann-aule, , partly of the plant itself (angelica archangelica), partly only of the stalk of the plant. The corolla of the meadowsweet has a certain resemblance to the umbel of umbelliferous plants, to which belongs the angelica. (Solør) jul-gras, , denotes a species of vetch (A. Larsen in R. Suppl.).

jøljager [jøl··jā·gər, jøl·jā·gər], , a person, a boy without new clothes or anything new for Christmas; jocular or derisive term. See ,

jølskrinkel [jøl·skre‘ŋ·kəl],, a goblin or bogey with which to frighten naughty children at Christmas-time. is possibly skríngi,, a monster, ludicrous being or strange thing (B.H.). From that case, be compared with
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