Meet the Icelandic Yule Lads — Skyrgámur

Skyr-Gobbler

Photo by Micheile Henderson @micheile010 // Visual Stories [nl] on Unsplash

This is the eighth 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:

The Thirteen Yule Lads of Iceland

Icelandic Name: Skyrgámur

English Translation: Skyr-Gobbler

Arrival: December 19

Departure: January 1

Skyr Gobbler, the eighth,

was an awful stupid bloke.

He lambasted the skyr tub

till the lid on it broke.

Then he stood there gobbling

- his greed was well known -

until, about to burst,