Meet the Icelandic Yule Lads — Askasleikir
The Bowl-Licker
2 min readDec 15, 2019
This is the sixth in a fourteen-part series on the Icelandic Jólasveinar, or Yule Lads. For an introduction and the full list of mischievous Christmas imps, and one terrifying Christmas cat, you should read the following:
Icelandic Name: Askasleikir
English Translation: Bowl-Licker
Arrival: December 17
Departure: December 30
Bowl Licker, the sixth one,
was shockingly ill bred.
From underneath the bedsteads
he stuck his ugly head.
And when the bowls were left
to be licked by dog or cat,
he snatched them for himself
