Grýla: The Icelandic Giantess Who Has Been Eating Naughty Children at Christmas for Over Eight Hundred Years
Grýla is the oldest and most terrifying figure in Icelandic Christmas tradition, a giantess of monstrous physical description who descends
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The Yule Lads: Iceland’s Thirteen Christmas Trolls, Their Ancient Origins, and the Law That Tried to Ban Them
Iceland has thirteen Father Christmases. They do not live at the North Pole. They do not have workshops staffed by
The Yule Cat: The Icelandic Giant Who Eats Anyone Who Does Not Receive New Clothes Before Christmas
The Yule Cat, Jólakötturinn in Icelandic, is one of the most unusual figures in Christmas folklore and one of the