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 ...

While silly American gays wait around on tenterhooks for that same old overdressed fat daddy to plop in for a microsecond and deem them naughty or nice, Iceland’s kinky Yule Lads have already ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...