Icelandic Jólasveinar 10
A beautiful bead.
Min admires the stone bead, she thinks it is a good trade for a plate of cardamom cookies…
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Window Peeker is foiled by the curtains.
The tenth Yule Lad to come is Gluggagægir, the window-peeker who comes on December 21st! Happy Winter Solstice to our Northern Hemispherical friends, and Happy first day of Summer to those south of the equator!
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To read all about the 2012 Jólasveinar visits to the Quimper Hitty cupboard, click here.
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The Jólasveinar tradition is explained in the Icelandic Yule/Jól website here.
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Quimper Hittys 
Window peeker must give people a real start sometimes.
I am so glad that the days are going to start getting longer now. These short dark days are tiresome, even though not nearly as short as the Yule Lads are used to in Iceland.
Yes, we are lucky to have 8 hours 21 minutes of daylight here today, unlike Reykjavik with only 4 hours 7 minutes of daylight, and even less farther north in Iceland…
So glad the days are getting longer for Min and her sisters. Too much darkness is sometimes depressing.!!
Yes, it is depressing. But there is nothing like cheerful doll families, interesting traditions and kindness of friends and family to drive the winter blues away.
Window-Peeker is adorable!
Lonely, left outside,
Window-peeker’s teary eyes,
longings for light, warmth.
Ha! wonderful. I’m keeping that one.