Tonight Stúfur, the 3rd Yule Lad comes to town. This is a 15-day Icelandic Christmas series. To hear about the  other Yule Lads that have already arrived and an overview of this Icelandic Christmas series, check out Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3. Below is the Icelandic and English version of the poem about Stúfur by Jóhannes úr Kötlum.

Stúfur hét sá þriðji, 

Hann hljóp með hana í burtu 

Stubby was the third called,

And scurrying away with it,

Buying and eating clementines during the Christms season. Not very long ago, it was considered fairly rare to have a decent variety of fruits available in Iceland. I have friends who are in their mid 40s and up, who say they grew up looking forward to Christmas because that was the only  time in the year when they go clementines.

Even though Icelanders can probably get them shipped in anytime now, they pretty much pop up in abundance during this season.

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