Weather: Decembers daily weather, Ho, Ho, Ho is near!, 1 by rannveig

rannveig wrote:
Good morning! It's clear, fairly calm, 29°F and very dark here at 9:30 this morning :-) Sunrise will be at 11:11 and sunset at 3:31 today.

Now back to the miscievous and unruly son's of the troll Grıla (that liked naughty kids for dinner) ..... there are 13 of them and each one of them had their own favorite "crime" so to speak. They come one at a time, the first one 13 days before Christmas and the last one on Christmas Eve and leave one at a time as well, the first one on Christmas day and the last one on the 13th day of Christmas. When Grıla was still a threat to naughty kids these "yulelads" didn't bring much joy to people but since then they have been reformed by the jolly white bearded Santa Clause and are now his representatives x 13 here in Iceland :-) Kids put their shoe out in their window and if they're good they can expect a small gift in the morning, if not they get a potatoe. The first one arrive last night and then they'll come one each night until Christmas.

Today's yulelad is called Stekkjastaur - he used to hang out in the outhouses where the sheep were kept and startle them and whoever came to tend to them ...... his name means that he had stiff legs.

The photo is taken of a Christmas card with a drawing by Selma Jónsdóttir