Ketkrókur (Meat-Hook) is the twelfth Yule Lad who comes to town on the night before the 23rd of December and departs for home on the 5th of January.

Meat-Hook was known for being crazy about meat and he would use a hook to steal a smoked lamb hanging from the rafters.

 

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