Who Really Is This Smell Sensitive Gáttaþefur Yule Lad?

Gáttaþefur Yule Lad
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The tenth troublemaker yule lad to come arrives the night of December 21st. He is Gáttaþefur yule lad and has everyone in the house stressing about keeping the home clean.

Big nosed nosy yule lad

Gáttaþefur yule lad has an unusually long and hypersensitive nose. He uses this ability to locate laufabrauð (leaf bread) and other delicious freshly baked goods. However, leaf bread is his all time favorite. Because of this, I have added a video below on how to make it.

Smelly house no presents

Although Gáttaþefur yule lad’s favorite thing is Christmas baking, he also loves a clean house. For this reason, make sure your house is clean tonight because Gáttaþefur’s acute sense of smell will pick up any bad odors left behind.

On January 4th it’s time for Gáttaþefur to go back home and let people keep a messy house if they so please. 

Poem

Door Sniffer Poem

translation by Hallberg Hallmundsson
Eleventh was Door Sniffer,
a doltish lad and gross.
He never got a cold, yet had
a huge, sensitive nose.
 
He caught the scent of leaf bread
while leagues away still
and ran toward it weightless
as wind over dale and hill.

The Door Sniffer verse

Door Sniffer’s nose stood him in good stead
he used it to find all kinds of things.
While still up in the mountains he could smell
the quickest way to find some food.
And out of the drifting snow he would appear,
sticking his nose into every door ajar.