Icelandic Christmas Cat Song

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.

Icelandic christmas cat song. A song about a monster. No one is quite sure where the Yule Cat belief comes from but what has made the Cat universally famous is perhaps the poem by Jóhannes úr Kötlum 18991972 the beginning of. The stories are directed at children and are used to scare them into good behaviour.

If playback doesnt begin shortly. The Christmas Cat was made famous in a 1932 poem by Icelandic poet Jóhannes úr Kötlum. The figures are depicted as living together as.

Behave or a troll will terrorize you or a cat will eat you. The poem Jólakötturinn tells the story of the dreaded Christmas Cat a horrible beast which ate poor children who didnt get new clothes for Christmas. The first song is a 1987 recording of Björk singing a early 20th century poem by Jóhannes úr Kötlum who codified the many old folk stories and myths relating to Christmas.

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. 12282019 at 946 AM. It was part of his childrens book of Christmas poems based on Icelandic folklore Jólin koma.

Im not convinced that shes entirely human. The folklore includes both mischievous pranksters who leave gifts during the night and monsters who eat disobedient children. Superstition was rife in Iceland in the past.

Icelands favourite daughter sings her version of the carol Jólakötturinn or the Christmas cat by composer Ingibjörg Þorbergs. And so did the jazz singer Ragnheiður Gröndal in 2004. Apparently farmers threatened their employees with being preyed upon by the Yule Cat in order to encourage them to complete the processing of the autumn wool before Christmas.