Yule lads - A Celebration of Iceland's Christmas Language:German Artist Brian Pilkington is the

Artist Brian Pilkington is the author and illustrator of this and many other children’s books

Size: 210 mm /8

Sausage Thief nabs any sausages he finds lying about

Size: 94 mm /3

is the second Yule Lad to head down the mountains on the 13th of December

Yule lads - A Celebration of Iceland's Christmas Language:German Artist Brian Pilkington is theGifts left in shoes, milk disappearing from the fridge, mysterious figures whisking into the shadows at Christmas time in Iceland this can mean only one thing the Yule Lads are back in town! Over the centuries the Icelanders have developed a highly unusual set of Yuletide traditions, from the food they eat smoked lamb, rotten skate and leaf bread to their colourful folklore featuring the giant troll Grla, her thirteen rascally sons, and that huge,