Across
- 4. Scottish New Year festival concluding Yule
- 5. Roman midwinter festival of role reversal and joy
- 6. Household spirit later known as a Christmas gnome
- 8. Norse god associated with the boar and fertility
- 9. Old Norse name for the midwinter celebration
- 11. The dead honoured during Yule feasts and stories
- 13. Ritual toast made during ceremonial drinking
- 14. Ghostly procession led by Odin during Yule
- 15. Roman sun god honoured on December 25
Down
- 1. Anglo-Saxon name for Mothers Night
- 2. Sacred centre of the winter household
- 3. Welsh midwinter visitor who tests household boundaries
- 5. Odin's eight-legged horse
- 7. Icelandic ogress who punished lazy children
- 9. Old Norse name for Yule
- 10. Astronomical event marking the longest night of the year
- 12. Green winter decorations symbolizing enduring life