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This is very interesting. There's no question that Christmas was incorporated into the Catholic calendar of holidays, and the various celebrations and observations were largely left untouched. The church just put a Christian gloss on it, superimposing the non-scriptural date of Jesus's birth into this ancient winter holiday.

The article is mostly unsourced, but there are extant sources for the ancient Swedes' festivities. Mentioned once at the end of the article is Hávamál, described as "a single poem in the Codex Regius, a collection of Old Norse poems from the Viking age. The poem, itself a combination of different poems, is largely gnomic, presenting advice for living, proper conduct and wisdom."

Link for further reading on Hávamál:

https://infogalactic.com/info/H%C3%A1vam%C3%A1l

Thanks for the post. This was new to me.