Dec 14, 2005 | Uncategorized |
Grýla, the ghastly child-eating ogre and mother of the Yule Lads, has a rather under-publicized yet sinister sidekick: jólakötturinn, or the Yule Cat, who lives with her in her cave. In the Iceland of yore, every person who did not get a new item of clothing for...
Dec 13, 2005 | Uncategorized |
Pity the poor parents who have to put prezzies into the shoes of their young children these days, because they are duty bound to memorize the names and – worse – order of all the Yule Lads. This can be difficult, as the DJ on Rás 2 [State radio] found out yesterday;...
Dec 12, 2005 | Uncategorized |
THINGS I TICKED OFF MY CALENDAR THIS WEEKEND Kitchen party with EPI Friday nightBaking of bottom half of Sarah Bernhard cookies Saturday morning [must be done in stages as are a bitch to construct]Seaside run [have to be quick these days to catch the fleeting...
Dec 10, 2005 | Uncategorized |
Our very own Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir has just been crowned Miss World! That makes her the third Icelandic Miss World in 20 years. Not bad for a population of 290,000, is it? [bragbrag] And yes, ordinarily I don’t condone beauty contests. [They really are...
Dec 10, 2005 | Uncategorized |
Sometimes it’s infinitely entertaining to be a fly on the wall [or water, as it were] in the hot pot at the Laugardalslaug swimming pool in Reykjavík. As loyal readers will know, Iceland’s hot pots serve the same social function as, say, the English pub or the Turkish...
