The Yule Lads are from Icelandic Christmas folklore. They go to everyone’s houses to leave gifts in their shoes, but only if they’re good. If not, they leave rotting potatoes. One comes each day for 13 days leading up to Christmas, all with individual quirks and tricks. Let us go through my 6 favorite lads and what they do.

 

 

Stubby is a cute, abnormally small, creature that breaks into your house and steals your pans. What does he do with said pans? Eats the crust off them, of course!

 

 

Door Slammer has an affinity for guess what? Slamming doors. A man of simple tastes. He loves to slam doors especial- ly during the night. So if you ever hear a bumpin’.

 

Doorway sniffer has an abnormally large nose and in turn, a fantastic olfactory system. He uses it to locate Icelandic leaf bread. For eating. Because he’s hungry.

 

 

Spoon licker loves Þvörur, a wooden spoon with a long handle. He is extraordinarily skinny because of his extreme malnutrition.

 

 

Bowl licker is quite a character in that he steals a specific type of bowl called an ‘askur.’ It’s not known what he does with said bowl, but it’s presumed that he licks it.