Christmas Eve is here. With it comes the final of the 13 Yule Lads.
The final Yule Lad is called KERTASNÍKIR (Candle Beggar)
Christmas is celebrated on 24 December promptly at 6pm in the evening. Traditional dishes include ptarmigan, smoked lamb or smoked pork and pickled red cabbage. Presents are opened after Christmas dinner, which is a fairly formal affair. Icelanders decorate the interior and exterior of their houses extensively, in an effort to brighten up the dark winter days and nights.
Gleðileg jól
The final Yule Lad is called KERTASNÍKIR (Candle Beggar)
Christmas is celebrated on 24 December promptly at 6pm in the evening. Traditional dishes include ptarmigan, smoked lamb or smoked pork and pickled red cabbage. Presents are opened after Christmas dinner, which is a fairly formal affair. Icelanders decorate the interior and exterior of their houses extensively, in an effort to brighten up the dark winter days and nights.
Inspired by Iceland have a range of traditions described here.
Alda Sigmundsdottir also provides more details here.
A key tradition of Icelandic Christmas is the yule book flood. Read more about it here
This is one of the foods that are traditionally eaten: the ptarmigan.
Ptarmigan - serving suggestion: with chips
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