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A norwegian ritual known as circling the christmas tree follows where everyone joins hands to form a ring around the tree and then walk around it singing carols afterwards gifts are . As a sagacious politician he sought to reconcile and blend and mesh pagan practices with christian beliefs to merge paganism with the roman church constantine promulgated the edict of toleration in ad 313 he became emperor in ad 323 and then christianity was enthroned jesse lyman hurlbut the story of the christian church p 74