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Happy (real) New Year
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 [...]
Merry Christmas – Gleðileg jól
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, [...]
Kertasníkir – Candle Beggar – 24 December
Kertasníkir The thirteenth was Candle Beggar – ´twas cold, I believe, if he was not the last of the lot on Christmas Eve. He trailed after the little ones who, like happy sprites, ran about the farm with their fine tallow lights. Yule Lads – jólasveinarnir
Ketkrókur – Meat Hook – 23 December
Ketkrókur Meat Hook, the twelfth one, his talent would display as soon as he arrived on Saint Thorlak´s Day. He snagged himself a morsel of meat of any sort, although his hook at times was a tiny bit short. Yule Lads – jólasveinarnir
