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Some Icelandic Christmas Folklore pt. I – Grýla

by Pu on December 10, 2010

A certain ogress named Grýla lived in the mountains of Iceland with her third husband, a lazy troll going by the name of Leppalúði, her fiendish cat and a gang of thirteen mischievous sons, known as the Yule Lads. Quite a family, isn’t it? And kind of dysfunctional too! Grýla the ogress for instance had […]

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