Icelandic Christmas Cat Song
12282019 at 946 AM.
Icelandic christmas cat song. The Yule Cat is a huge and nasty cat from Icelandic folklore. And so did the jazz singer Ragnheiður Gröndal in 2004. If playback doesnt begin shortly.
Here you can listen to Icelands most famous singer Björk singing about the Icelandic Christmas Cat - and read the translation of the text from Icelandic to English. Grýla and Leppalúði have 13 children all of whom are male that are the Icelandic Santa Clauses. The song is Björks contribution to the Hvit Er Í Borg og BÒ Christmas compilation issued on the Hljóðaklettur label in 1987.
Im not convinced that shes entirely human. Behave or a troll will terrorize you or a cat will eat you. Jólakötturinn is one of few real Icelandic Christmas songs in which the song and lyrics are.
This year the fearsome felines likeness has been captured in a sculpture that is 5 meters 16 feet tall and 6 meters 19 feet wide and decorated with 6500 LED lights. Snjókorn Falla Laddi. And for modern Icelanders most of making sure we got something new for Christmas.
A song about a monster. Grýla and Leppalúði are the parents of the 13 Icelandic yule lads. The threat of being eaten by this massive monster of a cat was not only used to motivate kids.
Jólakötturinn The Christmas Cat is a beast that according to Icelandic folklore eats children who dont receive new clothes in time for Christmas. Superstition was rife in Iceland in the past. Lastly Sigríður tells me the song Morning Has Broken popularized by Cat Stevens in the 1970s it actually originated as a Scottish hymn in 1900 with English lyrics written in 1931 by Eleanor Farjeon has become a very popular Christmas song in Iceland.