/ · 1894 Brewer’s · I · Iol (pron. Yol)
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The Danish word for Christmas; the same as Yule.
“The savage Dane
At Iol more deep the mead did drain.”
Sir W. Scott: Marmion.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.