print email comment close Christmas in Iceland URL: http://www.iceland.org/us/the-embassy/curiosities/nr/757 Description: This site describes various ways that Christmas is celebrated in Iceland. Includes pages devoted to the transition from solstice to Christmas, decorations and preparations, St. Thorlákur's Mass, children, food, the Christmas Cat, the Yule Lads (13 mischievous trolls), Christmas Eve, and Threttándinn (the 13th day, also known as Twelfth Night). Includes some Icelandic Christmas vocabulary and related links. From the Embassy of Iceland in Washington, D.C. Publisher: Iceland.org Extra Keywords Thorlakur Threttandinn Jolasveinarnir þorlákur þrettándinn Library of Congress Subject Headings: Christmas -- Iceland Holidays LII Database Information: Record 7354 created by Margaret Myhre on 12/05/2003 Last modification on 06/11/2005 Last review by Charlotte Bagby on 10/07/2005 Published: 12/05/2003   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/7354