Tonight Þvörusleikir (Spoon Licker), the 4th of Iceland's 13 Yule Lads, will come down from the mountains. He likes licking used þvörur (large wooden cooking spoons).
Children leave their shoes out in the window, he gives the good ones a small gift, the bad ones get a potato.
Children leave their shoes out in the window, he gives the good ones a small gift, the bad ones get a potato.
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Here are the lyrics: https://glatkistan.com/2017/02/28/jolakotturinn/
"a" is the problem. it's not enough.
But this year is the first year my son is putting his shoe in the window, so ask me next year!
Potatoes were chosen because it was one of the few things most homes had in abundance.
https://guide.michelin.com/en/article/features/unusual-christmas-traditions
Og _þetta_ er perralegasta jólasveinamyndin.
13 lads, 1 potato per shoe per person, that's 13 tatties.
Every icelandic kid rents you a shoe (they only need 1!) for 13 days. That's 80K shoes. This is a bad thing, so you generate 1 million potatoes in 13 days.
problem is now window space but this should be solvable