Gryla and the yule lads

What Is Icelandic Christmas? Who Are The Yule Lads? Why The Grýla? - The Reykjavik Grapevine

The Icelandic Christmas Cat, Yule Cat, or Jólakötturinn, is probably Iceland’s most famous cat. It is the pet of child-eating monster Grýla and her husband Leppalúði. They are the parents of the 13 Icelandic Yule Lads.

Yuletide folklore would not be the same without Iceland’s 13 Yule lads & Grýla the Mountain Troll & the Yule Cat. Yule Lads or (Icelandic: jólasveinarnir or jólasveinar) the countdown…

Continuing to explore the female figures associated with Yule. Many of these figures were suppressed or distorted during the changeover to Christmas.

Yule Lads

Find out all about the 13 Icelandic Yule Lads and their evil mother Gryla. Learn about the personality of each and every Yule Lad and when they come arrive from the mou

Unlike her depiction in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Grýla isn't depicted as a beautiful woman who wears dark eyeshadow, wine red lipstick and dark contour. Grýla, like your average troll, has an appetite for misbehaving children. She's often depicted with several tails, horns, a beard, and a hag-like appearance. In other words, she's appealing enough by troll standards to put a ring on it.

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