Meet the Icelandic Yule Lads — Stekkjarstaur
The Sheep Cote-Clod
2 min readDec 6, 2019
This is the first 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: Stekkjarstaur
English Translation: Sheep-Cote Clod or Gimpy
Arrival: December 12
Departure: December 25
The first of them was Sheep-Cote Clod.
He came stiff as wood,
to pray upon the farmer´s sheep
as far as he could.
He wished to suck the ewes,
but it was no accident
he couldnt; he had stiff knees
- not too convenient.
