Helgi Valgeirsson

The Yuletide Lads - Yuletide Lads Helgi Valgeirsson

The story The Yuletide Lads is about The Yuletide Lads, sons of Ogress and Ragjerk and their pet The Yuletide Cat. They all live in a cave high up in a mountain called Troll peak. They all wake up before Christmas to celebrate Christmas but otherwise they sleep the biggest part of the year." Ogress is a giantess who controls her family with iron hand. She and her companion Ragjerk send their sons "The Yuletide Lads" to town with instructions to collect some Christmas food for the Christmas festive season but in return they put a magic potato in the shoes of the children in town. In the time from thirteen days until Christmas the children leave their shoe in the window sill for the Yuletide Lads to put into the shoe a magic potato. In the shoes of nice and well behaved children the potato turns into a nice gift they find in the morning but in a shoe of naughty children the potato remains a potato. After Christmas the whole family, Ogress, Ragjerk, The Yuletide Lads and The Yuletide Cat go to sleep again and they sleep the whole year until next Christmas.