Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Stekkjastaur, the first of Iceland’s 13 Yule Lads, comes down from the mountains tonight. All the children put a shoe in the window that he will put a treat or a little gift in - if they have been good that is. The bad children get a potato. 67694168
rachelfreedman.bsky.social @rachelfreedman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024free potato? don't threaten me with a good time 010
Penny Flynn @pennyflynn.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Please can you post a new Yule lad tale every day? 121
r #FreeŁink @rifka.bsky.social · 13/12/2024I always take my treats from a shoe I used in my messiest, most infected stage of life 000
Kyle Willey @kylewilley.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Need more of this, please. Love to hear about other traditions. 010
Quaestor 🦇 with a fuckd up brain @quaestor.bsky.social · 11/12/2024a potato is at least something to eat... which is fair..... and you can make crisps out of it. 010
Natalie @natfee.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Wikipedia says it’s a rotten potato in the shoe, do you know if this is a regional or old timey thing, or maybe at the parents’ discretion? Rotten potato just feels extra mean lol en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland... 131
Donna Johns @librarytwitt.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Delightful! And no children,even naughty ones, go hungry 100
Steel Rat Gamer @steelrat.bsky.social · 11/12/2024So that is why my shoes are filled with mashed potatoes 010
The RedRoach @redroach67.bsky.social · 11/12/2024I feel like I would get a shoe stuffed with mashed potatoes and dog urine 010
Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 12/12/2024@rahaeli.bsky.social New route for free potatoes 1130
S. Drekisdóttir @vikingrrl69.bsky.social · 12/12/2024I would like a potato. Being bad gets rewarded once again. Skal. 010
khyizang @khyizang.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Damn! With that crew, why would you ever put a shoe out in the first place? Wouldn’t they steal it? I mean really? I know I wouldn’t. 000
hyperfashionist @hyperfashionist.eurosky.social · 11/12/2024The naughty kids can cut the potato into wedges, oven cook them, and douse them in that seasoning that you have 020
𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social · 11/12/2024I approve, because he sounds like "Stegosaurus". 010
Sophietica @sophietica.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Hmm, in the Netherlands St Nicholas leaves gifts/treats in your shoe in the weeks leading up to 5dec. But *we* leave *him* a potato (or other vegetable) for his horse. Yes his horse likes potato, shush. He also likes a whole avocado or mango, ok? He'll eat whatever we put in that shoe. 0111
Van Firth @vanfirth.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Now you’re obligated to write a post on each of the other 12. Please. 1190
the irreducible @anguilline.bsky.social · 13/12/2024My perfumer @bpal.bsky.social did the Yule Lads. Such a great tribute. Stekk, always wanted to smell ye. 011
ninjamonkky.bsky.social @ninjamonkky.bsky.social · 12/12/2024With a potato, you can make more potatoes; a toy will just break. It seems like naughty children are just investing in their future. The potato-shoe-children will have a field full of food in their larder by spring, while the good children will have played their winter away. 0161
Román René Orozco @rexnatus78.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Honestly, receiving a potato would be awesome. Have you seen the price raise on these things? I can make homemade adobadas and be a hero to my wife and daughter. 020
J.D. Popham @jdpopham.substack.com · 11/12/2024The Yule Cat is now officially part of my Yuletide celebration. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland... 051
Jill S @outseide.bsky.social · 11/12/2024don't tell all the kids in the US who took a potato from the Halloween trick or treating 150
Karl Lyktberg @swesteel.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Oh, I saw something about this from the programmer that does youtube shorts. In exchange I’ll mention that Sweden has a sapmi tv calender this year, with a bonus show for opening the day’s lucka and a sapmi folk tale. 120
Jocelyn @historygirl.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Do they have a special shoe for this or do they just use their regular ones? 200
Paul C (Scotland) 🚫genAI @paulc010.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Given the price of fresh produce these days a potato would be a great option. Unless the "gift" is two potatoes. 010
Caroline Venezia @caroline-venezia.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Ooh, thank you - can we look forward to a Yule Lad of the Day, or doesn't it work like that? 120
Ludibriumventis @ludibriumventis.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Samwise Gamgee would be very sad to learn that only bad hobbitses get po-tay-toes. 070
Bad News Björn @badnewsbjorn.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Can you explain why he's usually translated into English as "Sheep-Cote-Clod", a name that I'd bet no native English speaker has ever understood? 110
Cat Kimbriel @catkimbriel.bsky.social · 12/12/2024. . . What variety of potato? (This is of course silly, but there are so many wonderful varieties of potato, and I can't have wheat and am picky about chocolate.) I will happily misbehave to get a fresh Red Garnet, Hannah's, or Japanese sweet potato! 140
Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Also, why is everyone tagging @darthbluesky.bsky.social on this? What potato lore am I missing? 4390
Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 12/12/2024I am a bit taken aback by all the enthusiasm for getting a potato in your shoe. Clearly you have never been students at an Icelandic school. It is very shameful to get a potato. It is an actual threat here. Parents say: "If you keep behaving like this you might get A POTATO IN THE SHOE TONIGHT." 151889
Will Knott @willknott.bsky.social · 12/12/2024If I put a boot in the window, will I get a really big potato? And is it a waxy or flowery potato. Irish cooking needs to know. 120
Ross 🏳️🌈🏴 @mightyredpanda.northsky.social · 11/12/2024@darthbluesky.bsky.social just how bad have you been 010
Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 21/12/2024bestofthenorthwest.com/wp-content/u... 000
lila7.bsky.social @lila7.bsky.social · 12/12/2024So do they get 13 gifts or potatoes? That’d be a lot 100
Lené Colbert @lenecolbert.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Damn. I was the kind of kid who’d have thought a potato *is* a treat. 😆 010
One Does Not Simply Re-Skeet a Meme @evilmagnus.bsky.social · 11/12/2024no seriously free potatoes? Where do I sign up and is there a shoe limit 3561
Sylvia Izzo Hunter @sylwrites.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Wait but that sounds like ... free potato?? Sign me up for the free potato 061
shankspeare.bsky.social @shankspeare.bsky.social · 12/12/2024I'd love to wake up to free potatoes! 050
Ashley S. Pumpkins 🎃 @truestorydesu.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Does he harass sheep before or after he gives out gifts and/or potatoes? 120
Trústi @traustifreyr.bsky.social · 11/12/2024I never got a potato. My mom claims otherwise. But how would she know? There were no witnesses when I threw it out the win... I mean when the yule lad forgot to stop by my window 1140
Sun Shade @sunshade.blue · 12/12/2024Aren't these little dudes mischief spirits? What counts as good or bad in their estimation, and how much of the bad do I need to do to get a sack of potatoes. Groceries are expensive 030
DEXI's Midnight Runner @weebilsurglace.bsky.social · 12/12/2024I once told some coworkers about the Yule Lads, and they were fascinated by Bjúgnakrækir. For years afterwards they would ask me what night the "Sausage Elf" was coming. 0131
cpkgeo.bsky.social @cpkgeo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024If they're just sort of good do they get french fries? 010
![The Yule Lads are the sons of Grýla and Leppalúði. They are a group of 13 mischievous pranksters who steal from or harass the population, and all have descriptive names that convey their favorite way of harassing.[1] They come to town one by one during the last 13 nights before Yule. They leave small gifts in shoes that children have placed on window sills, but if the child has been disobedient, they instead leave a rotten potato in the shoe.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:up7auxfvwss27p44opaaqzmz/bafkreifxo6gi2jewfq67abnm42wdx2i5mfcd26d3njssxq6fsdlpyf2viq)
