Yule Cat Known As Jólakötturinn Is An Enormous Feline Monster That Roams The Countryside In Icelandic Tradition During Christmas Time.
Here are a few songs from the icelandic christmas songs bank ;) the first song is about a girl who is wondering what is wrong with the chimney, there's somet. The icelandic christmas period is an intriguing mixture of religious practice and traditional folklore, beginning on 23 decemberand ending on epiphany, 6 january. This year, the fearsome feline’s likeness has been captured in a sculpture that is 5 meters [16 feet] tall and 6 meters [19 feet] wide and decorated with 6,500 led lights.
The Christmas Cat Was Made Famous In A 1932 Poem By Icelandic Poet Jóhannes Úr Kötlum.
Size of this creature ranges from being larger than a human to towering over houses and trees, and it's eyes glow in the darkness with an inner light. As zarka explains, this local legend comes from folklore, the familiar presence of large, furry cats in icelandic homes, the need for warm clothes and the crucial boost that clothing production gave to the economy. The icelandic yule lads live in the highlands with their troll parents, gryla and leppaludi.
The Christmas Is ‘Related’ To Scandinavian ‘Christmas Beasts.’
A song about a monster. On the night preceding december 12th icelandic children will put their shoe in the window so that the first of the 13 yule lads (the icelandic santa clauses) can leave a little present in their shoe. It first appeared in his book jólin koma (“christmas is coming”), published in 1932 with many subsequent editions and even an english translation published in 2015.
Just A Few Of The Top Icelandic Christmas Songs Are:
But it is no less cruel. The song is björk’s contribution to the `hvit er í borg og bò’ christmas compilation, issued on the hljóðaklettur label in 1987. The icelandic christmas cat is first mentioned in written records from the 19th century so he seems in that sense to be a more recent creation than the yule lads.
So It's Safe To Say That The Whole Month Of December Is Taken.
The song is a old folk song, a nonsensical song about the yule lads and their evil mother. As many countries do, iceland celebrates chrismas mostly with good food and gifts to loved ones, but unlike most countries that have a single father christmas / santa claus character, icelandic children are. Iceland's favourite daughter sings her version of the carol jólakötturinn or the christmas cat by composer ingibjörg þorbergs.
