The winter solstice is upon us once again, or if you prefer to call it the shortest day of the year. Others might even call it the first day of winter although technically it is half way through winter already. We now begin to tilt back toward the sun and the sunlight gets longer each [...]
On Christmas night itself – so a wise man writes – the lads were all restraint and just stared at the lights. Then one by one they trotted off into the frost and snow. On Twelfth Night the last of the lads used to go. Their footprints in the highlands are effaced now for long, [...]
The Jólasveinarnir (Yule Lads) start arriving in town on the morning of December 12th. Remember to place a shoe on your virtual windowsill before that, as they will leave a small cyber-gift for children who have been good, a small toy or fruit, for example, and those children who have been naughty will receive something [...]
