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Featured music:

“This Great Old Christmas Night” by Sofia Talvik from the album “When Winter Comes, A Christmas Album”

“Still, Still, Still” by the Gothard Sisters from the album “Falling Snow”

Background music:

“The Happy Elf” by the Gothard Sisters from the album “Falling Snow”

“Sussex Carol” by The Manor House String Quartet from “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear and Other Carols”

More information:

Learn more about the Yule Cat from Wikipedia, I iz Cat, Nerdist, and I Reykjavik.

Hear Björk perform “Jólakötturinn – Hvít Er Borg Og Bær (Icelandic Christmas Cat).”