Meet the Icelandic Yule Lads — Bjúgnakrækir
The Sausage-Swiper
2 min readDec 20, 2019
This is the ninth 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: Bjúgnakrækir
English Translation: Sausage-Swiper
Arrival: December 20
Departure: January 2
The ninth was Sausage Swiper,
a shifty pilferer.
He climbed up to the rafters
and raided food from there.
Sitting on a crossbeam
in soot and in smoke,
he fed himself on sausage
fit for gentlefolk.
