Icelandic Christmas Cat Song

Icelands favourite daughter sings her version of the carol Jólakötturinn or the Christmas cat by composer Ingibjörg Þorbergs.

Icelandic christmas cat song. The song is Björks contribution to the Hvit Er Í Borg og BÒ Christmas compilation issued on the Hljóðaklettur label in 1987. 12282019 at 1107 AM. 2 thoughts on A song about the Icelandic Christmas Cat from Björk Petros says.

Now you know who Laddi is in Iceland. Grýla and Leppalúði are the parents of the 13 Icelandic yule lads. Björk - Jólakotturinn Christmas Cat 1987 - YouTube.

The Yule Cat is a huge and nasty cat from Icelandic folklore. 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. 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 Christmas Cat was made famous in a 1932 poem by Icelandic poet Jóhannes úr Kötlum. Snjókorn Falla Laddi. 12282019 at 946 AM.

Björk also recorded a popular version of the song in the late 1980s listen here. This is Skuggi perhaps a distant relative to. Superstition was rife in Iceland in the past.

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. If playback doesnt begin shortly. The figures are depicted as living together as.