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Merry Christmas
Here in Iceland people don´t belive in Santa Claus. Instead we belive in 13 brothers, called the Yulelads (jólasveinar), that live up in the mountains in a big cave with their parents, Grýla (the mother) and Leppalúði (the father) and the Yuletide cat.
Don´t get me wrong, we celebrate christmas as a christian holiday.
Ok, back to the Yulelads; Grýla, their mother, is the biggest and meanest troll in Iceland. She is ancient She has about 80 children with 3 different husbands. The first husband went missing, the second one she ate and then she met Leppalúði and had with him the 13 Yulelads. Grýla is definitely the dominant member in the relationship and generally considered more terrifying while Leppalúði is basically just stupid and lazy. Grýla wanders down from the mountains in search of naughty children to put in her sack and takes them back to the cave where she makes a childrenstew and eats it.
Grýla is extremely ugly but people do not agree on how she looks.( I think she is beautiful like all woman´s)
The story about the Yulelads goes back to 1700something and back then they used to play tricks on people. They are 13 different personalities with 13 different names. For example Doorslammer, Sausages-stealer, Candlebeggar, Potscraper, Ladlelicker, Meathook and Bowl-licker.
Nowadays, kids put their shoe in the window and 13 nights before christmas the first one of the Yulelads arrive and gives them something sweet or a fruit in their shoe. But if they have been naughty they get a potato or a fishbone. So all Flickr, dont be naughty :) Merry Christmas all and Happy New Year. Hug and kisses ......
Merry Christmas
Here in Iceland people don´t belive in Santa Claus. Instead we belive in 13 brothers, called the Yulelads (jólasveinar), that live up in the mountains in a big cave with their parents, Grýla (the mother) and Leppalúði (the father) and the Yuletide cat.
Don´t get me wrong, we celebrate christmas as a christian holiday.
Ok, back to the Yulelads; Grýla, their mother, is the biggest and meanest troll in Iceland. She is ancient She has about 80 children with 3 different husbands. The first husband went missing, the second one she ate and then she met Leppalúði and had with him the 13 Yulelads. Grýla is definitely the dominant member in the relationship and generally considered more terrifying while Leppalúði is basically just stupid and lazy. Grýla wanders down from the mountains in search of naughty children to put in her sack and takes them back to the cave where she makes a childrenstew and eats it.
Grýla is extremely ugly but people do not agree on how she looks.( I think she is beautiful like all woman´s)
The story about the Yulelads goes back to 1700something and back then they used to play tricks on people. They are 13 different personalities with 13 different names. For example Doorslammer, Sausages-stealer, Candlebeggar, Potscraper, Ladlelicker, Meathook and Bowl-licker.
Nowadays, kids put their shoe in the window and 13 nights before christmas the first one of the Yulelads arrive and gives them something sweet or a fruit in their shoe. But if they have been naughty they get a potato or a fishbone. So all Flickr, dont be naughty :) Merry Christmas all and Happy New Year. Hug and kisses ......