My condolences to the children of Iceland. While many ... but they do leave you with troll spit everywhere. Anyway, bowls get licked December 17. 7) Door Slammer (Hurðaskellir) Your cookware ...

He is one of 13 mischievous troll brothers, called the Yule Lads, who have entertained and also frightened Icelandic children for hundreds of years. Instead of a friendly Santa Claus, children in ...

The Yule Lads’ father is a lazy troll ... Doorway-Sniffer has an abnormally large nose (so his sense of smell is excellent) with which he sniffs out laufabrauð (the traditional Icelandic ...

Today, the Yule Lads are often depicted as benign, Santa Claus-like figures clad in red-and-white clothing. But the brothers—referred to as jolasveinar in Icelandic—used to be far more ...

While American children are dreaming of sugarplum fairies and Santa Claus, wee ones in Iceland are being tormented by visions of a mean mountain hag named Gryla, her ugly troll husband ...

He is one of 13 mischievous troll brothers, called the Yule Lads, who have entertained and also frightened Icelandic children for hundreds of years. Instead of a friendly Santa Claus, children in ...

Soffia Jonsdottir, who is Santa’s de-facto secretary in Iceland, says the Icelandic Postal Service forwards all Santa mail to the tiny outpost at Myvatn. “Santa is a distant cousin of the Yule ...