True Stories and Folklore
The yule tide season is here

Yule Lads

Who are the yule lads that break into your house at night?

Grýla

Who is Grýla, the ogress and the mother of the yule lads?

What is yule tide all about?

Be ready for the scary truth

Askasleikir yule lad
frightening christmas story headline

Grýla the mother of ogres

The man-eating ogress Grýla is as scary and dangerous as she sounds. She ate her two previous husbands and is now out to eat your children.

Yule lads

The sons of Grýla are naughty and mischievous. They break into your house, eat your food and hide under your bed.

Winter Solstice

The true meaning of Christmas. A guest blog posted on the website of the talented Heathen Viking Bjørn Larssen.

Witchcraft and Sorcery

The power of the sorcerer

The top sorcerers in Iceland are still telling their stories through those who lived to tell the tale.

Witchcraft survived

stories that take you

Beyond your wildest dreams

mystic stories of the icelandic people