The Yule Lads - Mischief Makers and Children Takers - European - Extra Mythology
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As the nights grow long and dark and the holidays creep ever closer in the calendar, let's take a look at some of the festive myths from around the world. This year we travel to Iceland, where the winter months offer only a few scant hours of sunlight. And in the dark, holiday monsters creep. Here… there is only the child-eating giantess ogre Gryla, her enormous cat, and
her thirteen mischievous sons, the Yule Lads. Each has a very particular mischief up their sleeve from slamming doors to eating candles.
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From now on, I promise to treasure every itchy pair of socks my grandma gifts me for the holidays.
I am from Czech republic and here presents are bringed by little Jesus. And we open our presents on 24th right after diner where we eat fish with potato salad and after that we open our presents and eat the MANY kinds of Christmas cokies and drink eegnog, sing chrisnas carols and watch local chrismas clasics until we go to sleep.
Mery Christmas.
start on unknown mythology's of less known civilizations
Do Sinterklaas. It's very funny. They even have a Sinterklaasjournaal.
Plz do some scandinavian myths
Hey extra credits, I wanna learn how to make video games with easy to learn codes and engines. Is there any engine out there that has up to date tutorials so I can actually learn how to make a game?
I really wanna get a duck rpg out of my head.
i absolutely love that every culture has several monsters whose sole purpose is "kids if you misbehave you will DIE"
And considering how prevalent child mortality used to be in the time before accessible hospitals, treatments and law enforcement to return lost children... Mean neighbour parents could weave whatever lie they needed to get their kids to behave and survive
B_Potassio Well that escalated quickly
That probably makes it easier to make sure, they behave, sometimes.
My mom used to tell me when I was young that if I don't eat my food, Yellowbird (yes Yellowbird from Sesame St) was waiting outside and would catch me.
fear the big bird his size is great like his appetite for the naughty
“Look, who’s that up in the rafters?!
It’s sausage swiper, here to seal your sausage”
But you can get "salmonella" if you eat it
One of the funniest moments of QI: "which one of us is sausage swiper?" *camera pans across panel, mostly lesbians and straight men*
Matt Lucas: "guess that's me then!"
Swiper no swiping!!!
(Points at him) “Swiper, no swiping!!!”
Shit....worth a shot.
Ah, am an of culture
My face when me and the lads break into Olive Garden and lick all the pans
*Oh yes......*
Just give me those tasty sausages
mm, candles...
Those are some nice tasting bowls.
Stealing through the chimney sounds real good.
"Do you do Halloween?"
Icelander: No but we have Christmas.
Öskudagur, Ash Wednesday, actually is fairly similar, except the kids go to businesses, not individuals and they have to sing instead of extorting people with threats
@@Dmitrisnikioff XD noice!
Isn’t wassailing pretty much the same as trick-or-treating?
It's changing we are getting Halloween
and Öskudaginn
The Yule Lads are some incredibly specific pranksters.
Ye
I mean, if they come in the same order every year you can exploit them. Eat all your sausage before sausage swipper comes
Toilet-licker
My favorite WINDOW PEEPER
Someone has to do the jobs...
Denmark: "Hey, we gotta ta-"
Iceland: "I-is this about the Spoonlicker?"
Denmark: "Is it about the YES IT'S ABOUT THE DAMNED SPOONLICKER!"
What about sausage swiper.
er stúfur of hræðilegur?
JA! DET ER KLART!
Danish government of Iceland: "STOP TERRIFYING YOUR CHILDREN SO MUCH, CHRIST."
No.
Not icelandic
Spoonlicker is way too terrifying for little kids!
Erik Alansson edited to reflect that, thank you
The Germans:
Psst, hey Iceland want to know how to teach kids scary holiday stories when the church says no?
*insert Sam o’Nella reference here*
Yes
*angry Drawfee noises*
Here to swipe your sausages
No more fingy foods for three moons!
Yeah
"There is no story of her previous two husbands"
That's incorrect. There are at least stories of one of said husbands. He died and his spirit haunts the lands in the form of the chill wind that sends shivers down your spine.
Is he by chance a spooky scary skeleton?
Sounds like he’s akin to Jack Frost!
My brother: How does she keep pulling these men?
Literally, she's much stronger than them.@@gothnerd887
I like all the odd traditions. I think my fave is the Welsh Mari Lwyd.
Who doesn't want a visit from a skeleton horse, who challenges you to a freeform poetry contest for the right to come inside and raid your house for snacks.
...Hmmm, did you get that from Salm of Nela
Someone definitely made a children’s book of someone trying to ride said skeleton horse
@@morsch2028 of course he did
@@lorisperfetto6021 I mean, might've not, but there is always a possibility
rap battling a horse skeleton
UH OH! IT’S SKYR-GOBBLER
READY TO GOBBLE UP YOUR SKYR
Oh crap he's gonna go and gobble up all our skyr!
Red which is like a Nordic yogurt type thing
Sweaty Skeleton ahh another enlightened one
@@yaboicash6666 its only Icelandic not nordic
Honestly, I feel as though the Yule Cat is the most terrifying one.
For the kids it definitely is along with Grýla, but there is one Yule Lad that I was absolutely terrified of when I was younger and that was Window Peeper. They forgot to mention one thing about him, which is that he will steal whatever he sees that he likes and that includes children. So when he came around children would not be asleep in their beds but rather be hiding under something out of sight of the windows.
@@soleyh7988 as a kid, i assumed that no one would like me.
terminator3000 That is both sad and hilarious
I think a gigantic cat would be rather cute Acctually...
Agreed
Looks whos up on the rafter
. Its sausage swiper! Ready to swipe your sausage
Red
Another person of culture
Red a cultured human
man of culture I see
Ah yes we true people of culture
(Points at him) “Swiper, no swiping.”
Shit....he a ran away. Well it was worth a shot.
are you sure these Yule lads aren’t just homeless people?
Be careful or i'll send door sniffer after you.
I’d love to see a r rated animated Christmas movie about them
I sort of got the feeling of drunk family members visiting. The kids wake up the next morning "What happened to the ham?" "Ohhh... Uhhh.... Yule lads. Damn Yule lads" *pan to uncle sleeping in the corner with the ham as a pillow*
You Called or tax assessors?
Nice Cox n Crendor reference
Sooo the yule lads are basically roommates that occasionally lives presents
Yule cat: I'll devour you...
Zoe: You have *_no idea_* who you're dealing with
Yule cat, seeing Zoey: "Finally a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!"
I have *clothing*
Meanwhile all the cat children of Cryonoke island are huddled near the camp fire with concerned looks on their faces
“Who’s that in the window, you bet it’s window peeper”
Where did the curtains go
Icelander here, and while you impressed me with your perfect pronunciation of Grýla, the other pronunciations were a bit off ;).
Also a side note, while the Yule Lads (jólasveinarnir) were the most famous of Grýla’s children, she had at least 20 other children, who are a lot less famous. Even here in Iceland the non-Yule-Lad Children of Grýla are basically unknown to children.
Also, there are 77 recognized names for the Yule Lads, who are 13 in total, but the names you mentioned are the most famous ones for each of the Lads
I only know about them due to the Kókómjólk packs, listing some with the stranger names. ^_^
Já blessaður
Didn't Grýla marry Satan? That's what my aunt had told me.
Holy skítur I did not even know that even though I am Icelandic
Hum, I don't live on Iceland, but still remember my mother singing about how Gryla is dead now...
Thank you to the Icelandic lads for confirming this is all real. :)
Flashbacks to when Jesse Cox and Crendor postcast when they did a small feature on the Yule Lads xD
and had it animated
I was wondering how far I'd have to look for this. Second comment for those wondering
I don't think I remember them talking about the cat though
@@analoren4745 nope just on the lads themselves
@@analoren4745 one of the more recent one (second to last i think), they mentioned the cat.
Edit: episode 221 (dogs and cats)
"And villagers would prank each other by sneaking large straw goats into each other's houses." OMFG that's what that was about! You just solved a decade-long mystery for me! You, sir, get a pickle!
That's some hardcore pranking!
I love pickles!!
Fun fact: here in Sweden we have a giant straw goat that always gets burned down each year. It’s become somewhat of a tradition of just waiting for someone to set it on fire!
I desperately need to hear about the pooping Christmas log
It is pretty self exeplenatory
Check Jessie and crendots vid on it.
You literally just beat the literally candy shit out of it
A.M.A.
Cox n' Crendor have a video on it. They also do a few on the Yule Lads.
Once a king gets of Iceland threatened not to give his kid clothes, then ended up forgetting to give him new clothes and the kid was so traumatized that when he grew up and became king himself he made a law saying that you can’t you mythological figures to threaten children. Also, the government of Iceland spent something like 40,000 Kronos on a statue of the Yule cat, and it’s quite controversial
@@snuurferalangur4357 actually there was one king of Iceland, in like the 1500s, he was put in power by the danish king to be his hand over here, he was appropriately called "hundadaga konungur" or "the king of dog days" he was king for all of 9 months before the pressure of being responsible for this country got to him and he fled back to Denmark. ( he was given his nickname because he spent most of his rule drunk and ignoring our problems, hence the "dog days" of Iceland)
I think I desperately need to see a picture of this statue and as a trio to see it to my bucket list
The peeper is my favourite one because he’s like my uncle
You might want to talk to the police.
Cosmic Rider better not
Eewwwww
I still remember my first potato. My mother found me sitting in a chair in the livingroom, tears in my eyes, trying to eat the evidence. Ah, good ol' times
Never in my life have I got a potato
Did your parents give you the potato just for a joke cause they thought your reaction would be funny or were you actually a very misbehaved child?
That most not have been tasty
My Potato Grew into a Giant and Turned People into Couch Potatos.
3 years late but this made me laugh, thank you for sharing
Pretty Cool how Hilda adapted this myth into its story.
Samonella taught me about this already :^)
Lol
Nah just kidding he just fuckin’ eats people
Great minds think alike
true 😂
Guido Mista I was legit about to comment this lmao
I just learned about them today in season 2 of Hilda omg
The Yule Lads are just me and my friends on weekends
Which one is the best boy spoon licker?
In France; "If you will not behave, Father Whipper will come and whipped you"
In Iceland "If you will not behave, Gryla will come and eat you"
Yeah, Icelanders are much more hardcore than us XD
Here in Brazil we have the cuca, a half alligator hag that stells and eats disobedient childrem, especially the ones who refuse to go to sleep because she herself can only sleep one night each 7 years, there's even a lullaby about her
Poland during the time of Polish People's Republic had the story about a black Volga car and those who drove it abducted children, so the blood and organs could be used as transplants for rich Westerners. More of an urban legend than a myth but it's awesome, especially if you read about who apparently drove the thing.
Krankar Volund
In America they have the man who just... gives you coal for being bad
Wow
@@lyric7702 That came from Europe too, I think it's either spanish or dutch ^^
@@khalidgagnon8753 The Austrians had Frau Perchta, a witch that disemboweled children, and replaced their organs with stones and straw, and reanimate their corpse to serve as her servants
All old Christmas stories, "Be good or you'll get tortured to death."
That is so True
“The lazy children”
I’m going back to doing my homework
My wife and I are spending our honeymoon in Iceland for Christmas this year. We're gonna stay up all night to keep Skyr-licker away. That shit's expensive.
I can imagine King from The Owl House hanging out with Krampus, Gryla, the Yule Cat, and the Yule Lads as the Yuletide King of Christmas Creeps and Demons!
I’m loving the sound design in this one
On the 23rd before Christmas eve and people finish their shopping "
*laughs and then cries in retail*
Have to say i love the little sound effects added to this one, gives it a little spice lmao...The scuttles of the lads are hilarious.
Skyr gobbler is my spirit Yule, mostly when I’m late for school and gotta chug my danimals smoothie
Put just a bit of sugar in the skyr
I love how CZcams is recommending Peppa Pig and the crappy 3D animation videos. They must not like Icelandic mythology.
Or theyre the same thing
Same bro, that’s happening to me as well
It's been happening for months if you like animation. Apparently, cartoons are only for little kids, even if most of the animation happens to be stuff like Fritz the Cat, Heavy Metal, Legend of the Overfiend, etc. etc.
Yeah, what? Like this isn't necessarily directed at kids, it's just a (mostly) family-friendly channel. I was just getting the same recommendeds
Same
Eve Online, being made by the Icelandic CCP, had a Christmas event themed around the Yule Lads! They even did a whole CZcams skit explaining the 13 lads.
Extra credits:talks mysterious and serious
Samoella academy:İ am high on craaaaack
*Weissnacht Event intensifies*
*PANIK*
I am so pleased with the accuracy of your video! I'm half Icelandic and thus grew up on these stories. I have so many fond memories of trying to catch the Yule Lads in my house, and waiting anxiously for the package from my grandma with my new socks to arrive.
I am always a little apprehensive when I see Yule Lad videos, but I was pleasantly surprised! Keep up the good work!
The current version of the Yule Lads as they're known today was really canonized by poet Jóhannes úr Kötlum with his book Jólin Koma (Christmas is coming) in 1932. That's where the 13 yule lads are named and described. Before then their names and numbers tended to vary from place to place and even today there are popular Christmas songs that talk about there only being nine, rather than the more common thirteen
I'm really looking forward to the Christmas log that poops.
Fun fact: every Christmas eve everyone in my family gets new pajamas the night before Christmas and we had no idea this was a thing
A couple of years ago, I realized that the thing I was most looking forward to for Christmas was some new socks.
Like, colorful socks that go up to my ankles. Just that. I just wanted new socks.
Not that I wouldn't've enjoyed some cooler things, but I wasn't expecting anything much for Christmas, and I honestly did want more socks. I figured that's a mark of some level of maturity... probably?
I can highly recommend the Drawfee episode on the same topic. I mean, I can highly recommend and Drawfee episode, but, you know. Relevance.
there are 3 of them
Funny, was gonna mention that they just posted a video about Yule Lads as well hehe.
Sam o'nella is pretty good too.
Door slammer is the best lad.
Been waiting a whole year for this! I love how super specific the Yule lads are.
Kid misbehaves*
Every parent: your time has come!
Yes, I just learned about these guys a couple weeks ago and I just find them hillarious. I am so glad you are covering them!
Omg I love the legend of the Yule Lads
No one:
Not even the yule cat:
Yule lad:Hippity hoppity your sausages are now my property.
Iceland: Oh phooey with all your sun shine and lollipops! Where I come form,Christmas is a nightmare!
I've always loved the Yule lads since I saw Drawfee drawing some of them last year. But it was perfect timing that just after I finished watching their second video on them this came out. Love it!
The sound ambient in this episode is so impressive, I like it
Watch out, I think CZcams has classified this video as "child safe".
Halló, actual Icelander here. I wanted to say good video, very well researched even though a few things were a bit here and there but the overall all things where really well done!
Hæ ég á líka heima á íslandi
Years of Sam O Nella have prepared me for this moment
"Wait, who dat up on the rafters?"
*IT'S SAUSAGE SWIPER, HERE TO STEAL YOUR SAUSAGE. "Oh, c'mon!"
"are we sure they art just homeless men?" crendor
The sound effects and music upped the scare factor to 11. This didn’t leave me sleeping too peacefully on Christmas Eve.
Friggin love the yule children’s name would love to see a rated r movie with them
I definitely mentally built a plot outline for a Yule Cat horror movie just now.
Nah, a childrens movie will BE MORE BETTER...in the sense of accuracy.
*woah* who’s that up in the rafters why it’s *Sausage Swiper*
You have sumoned him he is now coming for you're sausage
You guys sure had fun with the foley in this episode.
As a Hilda fan it’s cool knowing this detailed story of the Yule lads
Are your children disobedient?
Lie to them and instill fear in them.
They wont distrust you at all.
Mat: Ho ho,welcome to mid winter my friends!
People like me who live in a place were it's hot at Christmas: :/
My Mom knows these stories since she was raised on them from her Mother who was from Iceland
A Gryla and Krampus epic rap battle would be super lit!
The sound effects on this video is hilarious lmao.
Because the descendants of the Vikings do everything hardcore.
when all your friends want a christmas story but you're still in the halloween mood
5:06 Oh its your boy spoon liker
Kudos to the champion in charge of sound effects! It made this episode complete.
Ya know that life is goin’ downhill when you thought that the Yule lads (and cat) were more normal than Santa Claus.
Fun fact: over half of Iceland’s population allegedly believes in Elves.
When people will understand you shouldn't believe in elves? They tell lies all the time!
abcdef27669 elves are tricksters. Gnomes are the friendly ones. Don’t get me started on Trolls.
@@ossi_2429 the trolls turn to stone in daylight
Love the sound effects for this one. I have a real problem with a spoon licking demons.
Uhhh those are no demons
OMG, the yule lads are amazing! I love the stories and how they changed over time.
Have you considered that the stories of the yule lads might've started with beggars and homeless people roaming the countryside in the past? The thieving, stealing and pranking might suggest that. And maybe the decree in 1746 might've been driven by an enlightenment ideal to stop people from harassing poor and homeless people or use them to scare children.
But that's just an idea. Not sure if that is provable :P
Thats an interesting and probable idea!
I love holiday legends from other countries and areas! I especially love the “anti-santi” characters like krampus. Please do more!
Can we talk about the horrific sounds that are in this video
Your pronunciation of Grýla was absolutely spot on and when you said jól, you gained a fan for life 👍
Have a good yule, everyone!
-Cat as a Companion
-sinister laugh
-Loves christmas
HMMMMMM
“NO, IM SLAMMING DOORS!”
oh man this was the perfect video for the night its snowing and I'm in my room with my massive wool blanket with hot cocoa thanks fro the video really made my night
The sound design for this video was great!
Dawww.... an enormous Kitty Cat!
You have scared me this Christmas
Give us the magical Christmas log! It sounds really strange and mythical. You teased it already last year in the Krampus video!
Love the sound effects.
Jesus Christ I think Sam’o nella academy did something on the Yule lads
Still good though
Just watch Sam o’nellas version it’s really funny
NOT MY PRECIOUS SKYR! YOU MONSTER!
Good thing my sister, Brandi, and I got some new nightgowns and Christmas shirts this year.
More ideas for yule lads: Balloon popper, log stealer, horse whipper, helium sucker, (can't do much thanks to balloon popper) and worst of all, elf that doesn't pet doggos.
We all know the stories of SAUSAGE SWIPER!
Yo the sounds design was really good in this one!
Sheep-Cote Clod, Gullygock, Spoon-Licker, Pot-Scraper, Bowl-Licker, Door-Slammer, Skyr-Gobbler, Sausage-Swiper, Window-Peeper, Door-Sniffer, Meat Hook, Candle-Beggar...
AND Stubby. Hands-down the best part thing about the Yule Lads