Icelandic Christmas Cat Song
And for modern Icelanders most of making sure we got something new for Christmas.
Icelandic christmas cat song. Björk - Jólakotturinn Christmas Cat 1987 - YouTube. And so did the jazz singer Ragnheiður Gröndal in 2004. 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.
It was part of his childrens book of Christmas poems based on Icelandic folklore Jólin koma. The feline was made famous in a 1932 poem by Icelandic poet Jóhannes úr Kötlum. Behave or a troll will terrorize you or a cat will eat you.
Jólakötturinn is one of few real Icelandic Christmas songs in which the song and lyrics are. So imagine the terror of poor children who didnt get a new piece of clothing for Christmas. If playback doesnt begin shortly.
This is Skuggi perhaps a distant relative to. 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. 12282019 at 1107 AM.
Icelands favourite daughter sings her version of the carol jólakötturinn or the christmas cat by composer ingibjörg þorbergs. No matter how old you are youre never safe from Icelands Christmas Cat. 1 jolakotturinn the christmas cat jolakotturinn or the christmas cat is an incredibly popular christmas song in iceland performed by bjork.
I am not afraid of the Christmas cat. Björk also recorded a popular version of the song in the late 1980s. No one is quite sure where the Yule Cat belief comes from but what has made the Cat universally famous is perhaps the poem by Jóhannes úr Kötlum 18991972 the beginning of.