People and Culture
Education material in slideshow format with information text about the people in the arctic and their culture.
31 January 2024
The parents of the Yule lads are trolls called Grýla (mother) and Leppalúði (father). In the tales Grýla is a scary troll who has the ability to detect when children misbehave, hunts them down, and takes them back to her cave for making stew of them.
31 January 2024
The "nice" parents of the Yule lads own a big black cate known as the Christmas cat (Jólakötturinn). The giant Christmas cat is vicious and even scarier than Grýla, it likes to hunt people who do not receive anything new to wear for Christmas and eats them.
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