The Yule Lads: A Celebration of Iceland's Christmas Folklore

The Yule Lads Hardcover Christmas book by Brian Pilkington

This story is about the strange family of the Yule Lads, their mother Grýla, where they come from and their story. How the Yule Lads give all the well behaved children presents and treats in their shoe, and Grýla want‘s all the children that behave badly. Brian Pilkington tells their story and about Icelandic Christmas Tradition in a new way in words and pictures beside the traditional Christmas poets by Jóhannes úr Kötlum. The Yule Lads are the Icelandic Santa Clauses.
Over the centuries the Icelanders have developed a highly unusual set of Yuletide traditions, from the food they eat – smoked lamb, rotten skate and leaf bread – to their colourful folklore featuring the giant troll Grýla, her thirteen rascally sons, and that huge, hungry feline – the Yule Cat. The Yule lads gives readers of all ages a delightful insight into the history, customs and characters of Christmas in Iceland.

This wonderfully illustrated book by Brian Pilkington with poems after Jóhannes úr Kötlum offers a unique insight into the legend and origins of Grýla and her 13 sons that in modern times give away toys and sweets to children 13 days before Christmas, but in the olden days they were a bit more mischievous. 

Author: Brian Pilkington
Hardcover: 24 pages
Language: English
Size: 30,5 x 25 x 2 cm
Weight:  0,72 kg
Publication: January 1, 2001

WANT TO BUY THE SET OF ALL THE YULE LADS?

You can get Christmas figurines with the 13 Icelandic Yule Lads here to decorate your home.
Here is a set of all 16 yule figurines
Here is a set of all 14 yule ornaments
Here is a set of all 7 yule lads ornaments