Icelandic Christmas Cat Song
The folklore includes both mischievous pranksters who leave gifts during the night and monsters who eat disobedient children.
Icelandic christmas cat song. The first song is a 1987 recording of Björk singing a early 20th century poem by Jóhannes úr Kötlum who codified the many old folk stories and myths relating to Christmas. Above you can listen to one of Icelands most famous and loved Christmas songs about this feared Christmas Cat. Im not convinced that shes entirely human.
Icelandic Christmas folklore depicts mountain-dwelling characters and monsters who come to town during Christmas. 2 thoughts on A song about the Icelandic Christmas Cat from Björk Petros says. And for modern Icelanders most of making sure we got something new for Christmas.
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. The stories are directed at children and are used to scare them into good behaviour. Now you know who Laddi is in Iceland.
Björk is one of the sexiest women on earth. Icelands favourite daughter sings her version of the carol jólakötturinn or the christmas cat by composer ingibjörg þorbergs. 12282019 at 946 AM.
The threat of being eaten by this massive monster of a cat was not only used to motivate kids. Jólakötturinn The Christmas Cat is a beast that according to Icelandic folklore eats children who dont receive new clothes in time for Christmas. Lastly Sigríður tells me the song Morning Has Broken popularized by Cat Stevens in the 1970s it actually originated as a Scottish hymn in 1900 with English lyrics written in 1931 by Eleanor Farjeon has become a very popular Christmas song in Iceland.
Björk also recorded a popular version of the song in the late 1980s. Here you can listen to Icelands most famous singer Björk singing about the Icelandic Christmas Cat - and read the translation of the text from Icelandic to English. That is a great poem and it was made into a spooky song by Ingibjörg Þórbergs.