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<\/a><\/p>\nAs stated on the top, “this is not a regular mailbox”!\u00a0 This mailbox is a direct line to Icelandic Santa!\u00a0 The mailbox is located outside of a Christmas shop, which sells a form letter to fill out for Santa for around $11.\u00a0 As you can read, you simply “write a letter with the name of your best friend or child” and get gifts from a Yule Lad.\u00a0 Of course, I’m selfish, so I wrote my own name and kept the gifts for myself.<\/p>\n
As you can tell from my scarf and heavy coat, this was a warm summer day in June in Iceland,<\/p>\n so naturally between then and now I had completely forgotten about my gift from the Yule Lads.\u00a0 That’s why I was so excited when I returned home months later to this;<\/p>\n *Spoiler Alert*<\/p>\n The gift is an ornament of one of the 13 Yule Lads.\u00a0 I got the “Skyrgamur” or “Skyr Gobbler”, an elfish figure that comes down from the nearby mountains every December 19th to secretly steal and eat the townspeople’s yogurt.<\/p>\n \u00a0 I initially thought this must be the most bizarre Yule Lad, and therefore the best.\u00a0 This just proves how little I knew about Yule Lads.\u00a0 Luckily my gift came with this educational literature.<\/p>\n My Skyr Gobbler wasn’t the most bizarre Yule Lad by a long shot!\u00a0 According to Icelandic folklore, there are 13 Yule Lads that live in the mountains.\u00a0 Each comes down on a different day in December to do weird things like steal your yogurt or lick your spoons.\u00a0 Many of their activities seem to revolve around stealing, licking, or sniffing foodstuffs, except for December 21st’s peeping Tom (or peeping Thor, if you will).\u00a0 I know it’s a lot, but the pictured guide is worth a read.\u00a0 I will be incorporating some of the traditions in my holiday celebrations next year!<\/p>\n Not to date myself, but it’s been a long time since I’ve written a letter to Santa.\u00a0 Now I can say unequivocally, that it’s just as magical as an (sort of) adult.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n