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Embassy of Iceland, Washington DC. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. "Grýla og jólasveinar". jol.ismennt.is. Archived from the original on 18 November 2005. Pictures by Halldor Petursson ca. 1950. "The Yule Lads". Jo's Icelandic Recipes. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. "Jólasveinarnir (Yuletide Lads)". Yule in Iceland.
"Alfar i huldufólk. O islandzkich elfach w mitologii, sagach i podaniach ludowych [The Icelandic elves in mythology, sagas and folk legends]". In Roman Chymkowski; Włodzimierz K. Pessel (eds.). Islandia: Wprowadzenie do wiedzy o społeczeństwie i kulturze [Iceland: Introduction to knowledge about society and culture] (in Polish). Warsaw: Trio.
In 2024, Grýla appears as a key character in the Amazon produced movie Red One (a 2024 Christmas action adventure comedy film from Warner Bros. Pictures), portrayed by Kiernan Shipka. She is referred to as the Christmas witch and has some magical powers. She is both the ogre like creature of mythology and a shape shifter that can take human form.
A tomtenisse made of salt dough.A common Scandinavian Christmas decoration, 2004. Modern vision of a nisse, 2007. A nisse (Danish:, Norwegian: [ˈnɪ̂sːə]), tomte (Swedish: [ˈtɔ̂mːtɛ]), tomtenisse, or tonttu (Finnish:) is a household spirit from Nordic folklore which has always been described as a small human-like creature wearing a red cap and gray clothing, doing house and stable ...
The Yule cat (Icelandic: Jólakötturinn, IPA: [ˈjouːlaˌkʰœhtʏrɪn], also called Jólaköttur and the Christmas cat [1]) is a huge and vicious cat from Icelandic Christmas folklore that is said to lurk in the snowy countryside during the Christmas season and eat people who do not receive new clothing before Christmas Eve.
Christmas gift-bringers in Europe. This is a list of Christmas and winter gift-bringer figures from around the world. The history of mythical or folkloric gift-bringing figures who appear in winter, often at or around the Christmas period, is complex, and in many countries the gift-bringer – and the gift-bringer's date of arrival – has changed over time as native customs have been ...
Well-dressed children watch toys in the shop window of a department store displaying Christmas decorations on December 11, 1946. AFP - Getty Images F.W. Woolworth Company: 1947
Nordic folklore is the folklore of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and the Faroe Islands.It has common roots with, and has been under mutual influence with, folklore in England, Germany, the Low Countries, the Baltic countries, Finland and Sápmi.