Who are the strange Icelandic yule lads? Part 1

Iceland has a lot of weird and wonderful Santa Clauses they are The Icelandic yule lads and are 13 brothers.They are trolls and it is said that they live in the mountains and in caves in the highlands of Iceland. These gays are very special and their names are very unusual and what they did in the old days was very strange. They did like to steal and prank people before every Christmas. Here are the names of some of them and what they did:

 

Stekjarstaur is a very special gay. I don’t know how to translate his name in English but he is a very stiff gay and has wood legs and he likes to suck milk from the farmer’s sheep

 

Þvörusleikir or Spoonlicker and like the name he likes to steal and lick spoons

 

Hurðaskellir or Door slammer. He was not a very nice fellow. What he liked best was slamming doors when people had gone to sleep. 

 

Gluggagægir or Window peepers. He did look inside the window to find something to steal. He was very spooky gay.

 

And the last is Kertasníkir or Candle sneak . He likes chasing people and sneaks candles from them. 

 

More about the yule lads later.