Yule lads - A Celebration of Iceland's Christmas horse theme Midgardsormur was the progeny of

Midgardsormur was the progeny of Loki the trickster

mysterious figures whisking into the shadows … at Christmas time in Iceland this can mean only one thing – the Yule Lads are back in town

Halldór Laxness

The most famous novel by Iceland’s one and only Nobel Prize winner

Yule lads - A Celebration of Iceland's Christmas horse theme Midgardsormur was the progeny ofGifts left in shoes, milk disappearing from the fridge, mysterious figures whisking into the shadows at Christmas time in Iceland this can mean only one thing the Yule Lads are back in town! 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 Grla, her thirteen rascally sons, and that huge,