My high school history teacher explained that getting clothes meant you worked hard to help out your family throughout the year and this wore out your old clothes. If you didn't get new clothes you weren't helpful enough, so it encourages children to do their chores. This may be wrong, but it's what my teacher told me.
A native icelander here and that the cat didn't eat kids if they didn't get clothes parents kinda just made it up later on to then make the kids stop complaining, also there are like 68 other Yule lads that Grýla had with other giants.
He missed the part in iceland where the Icelandic kids leave their shoe in the window, for the yule lads to give gifts for the nice kids, and potatoes for the missbehaving ones. I remember waking up, checking the window and lurking out to throw the potatoe befor my parenta found out, and seeing my sister (who i had fought with) doing the same
I love the fact that the kids get to put their shoe out thing overlaps with the Dutch sinterklaas, but instead of a potato kids here would get a bag of salt.
someone needs to write a horror story about trying to stay alive during christmas while a bunch of little comedically named elves do random shit in your house. like, super high tension, but no actual danger. i would love that.
We have Vasilica (a pig head, all dressed up on a pike), going with a crew of young boys around the village to sing before xmas. But you are supposed to open the door, give them money, wine and traditional deserts. Pre-comercial-era xmas is fascinating in old cultures. You can thank Coca Cola for bringing you the old jolly Santa , with raindeers and gifts.
Im hungarian and i used to think baby jesus flew in the window NAKED and left gifts for us. Since. Thats what they told us💀 mind u the BABY JESUS also had angels dangle bells before he comes so we know he comes
Guys I'm Icelandic and I swear the English translation of the lads names are even weirder then the original... Also you forgot that candle sweeper eats the candles. A very important note seeing as one time my little sister left a candle for him and my mom had to take a big ass bite out of it.
@@jimmilton6644 So you want your sausage to be swiped? I wouldn't want my sausage to be swiped by a sausage swiper. Do you want your sausage to be swiped by the sausage swiper, who swipes the sausage?
Sam O' Nella is like that person who texts you out of the blue once every three months or so.. You're excited they finally said something but mad cause you already know they still aren't going to be consistent.
Having been brought up with German childrens' books, I can tell you that while they may not be intentionally terrifying, a child's mind is quite adept at imaging the most gruesome possible outcome to every situation. For example: Hans Guckindieluft. Roughly, Hans Head-In-The-Air. The story goes, he lives in a harbor town, and is always - you guessed it - looking up at the sky, and never where he's going. Naturally, one day on his way to school, he isn't looking where he's going and trips. Not just anyplace, either - over the edge of the seawall into the harbor. The story ends with a colorfully illustrated picture of him falling in the water while the fish scatter. Except... here's where the catch comes in. I had just done a school project on piranhas, which - and this fact sprang to my mind's forefront as I saw that illustration - a small school of piranhas can strip a fully grown cow down to its skeleton in under five minutes. I had even made a (rather good) sculpture of a piranha, with box cutter blades for teeth. They were very sharp. Safe to say, since I live in a city near to an ocean, that for my entire life I have never once looked up at the sky while walking. Problem solved...?
To my knowledge piranhas will only eat a human if they're starving. The cow thing you mentioned was done with piranhas which have been starved for at least a week. Meine Lieblingsgeschichte war damals die Streichhölzer
4:58 Icelandic person here! The name of that cat literally just translates to "The Christmas Cat" We're not very creative. Hope that helps! Edit: 5:27 The Yule Lads. This translation really really bothers me because they're called Jólasveinar, which is literally just our word for Santa Clause, but plural because there's 13 of them. Also all of their translated names sound ridiculous!
@@philippcrain yeah, can't argue with you there, but it's just very bizarre to hear when the word "Jólasvein" in Icelandic is just our word for Santa Claus, so the direct translation is very jarring
okay, so I'm an Icelander and I'm here to tell you he didn't make any of this up lol... And btw Jólakötturinn, you know, the cat, his name just translates to: The Christmas Cat...
As an Icelander, I thank you for presenting our Yule Lads probably better than anyone else. However, you did forget the tradition where we put our shoes on the windowsill, so that we get gifts from each of the Yule Lads.
Not to mention the pot scrapings, bowl lickings, meat hooking, candle snatching, livestock harrasment, and D O O R W A Y S N I F F I N G that you could do
Not to mention the pot scrapings, bowl lickings, meat hooking, candle snatching, livestock harrasment, and D O O R W A Y S N I F F I N G that you could do
I love it goes from “Oh you get a penny” to “Your fibres get stamped on” to “YOUR FUCKING ORGANS GET RIPPED OUT AND ARE REPLACED WITH WHEAT AND STONES”
in the north of Spain we have the Tió de Nadal which is just a log covered with a blanket so it doesn't get cold and children are supposed to beat it with sticks
I'm pretty sure they were like Spanish culture after the Inquisition: yo all these other countries have Santa n shit but we don't have nuthin Also Spanish culture after the Inquisition: logs
Man dad being from iceland did the yule lads. Each night leading up to Christmas he would set up the house to make it seem like one of the yule lads visited. If it was Þvörusleikir / spoon licker, my dad would scatter spoons over the house and say Þvörusleikir did it, and if it was Skyrgámur we would leave out Skyr at night and in the morning it would be all eaten, with Hurðaskellir / door slammer my dad would slam doors in the middle of the night before hoping back in bed to pretend to be asleep. And my mom who was from lauterbrunnen switzerland did Krampus but instead of saying he would eat us if we were bad she told us he would tell santa not to visit our house and he would come instead and leave sticks and stones. One year my older brother got sticks and stones in his stocking with a note saying "although you may still have gifts under the tree your stocking has none, let this be a warning to you next time it will not only be your stocking but all of your gifts shall be replaced with sticks and stones" Gruß vom Krampus / Greetings from Krampus. This happened to my brother because he got expelled from school for purposely flooding the school bathroom. And those are my stories on how my parents mixed their Christmas cultures together to make my family's Christmas traditions
He's not kidding about the yule lads. I went to Iceland last year and bought not only a book about the yule lads but a foot tall statue of spoon licker.
Honestly I just wanna see this tradition play out, who wouldn't like watching someone try to rap battle a horse ghost trying to raid your pantry and take your beer?
I saw one when I was younger (I lived in north wales at the time) and a was so terrified I genuinely developed a fear of horses. I lived next to a field of sheep (I know could it get any more stereotypically welsh) and every time one of them would bleat I would be terrified it was some horse demon coming to kill me and my family at night.
Growing up in Iceland it was perfectly normal to have two trolls, a giant cat and 13 santas at christmas. So when I found out america only has one santa that flies around on a sled all I could think was, huh..that's weird.
I'm from iceland and I thank you for explaining my culture better than anyone (I was so confused when I heard about English santa claus like what nobody gets eaten?! )
Icelandic person:"...Ok! So the reindeer! The reindeer are the ones who get to eat the kids! Got it!" Explainer:"No and what the hell is wrong with you?"
I have arrived to watch this absolute banger on Christmas Eve at exactly 10:51 pm EST, 2023. Thank you Sam for making some of the best content on the platform. Love ya man.
I'm Icelandic and when I was a kid, I was misbehaving during Jól (Christmas) and my uncle told me that he will rat me out to Grýla. He told me that he knew her and he was going to bring me to her if I didn't behave. I was so afraid and scared that I started crying and begging to not be boiled alive in her cauldron. Btw, this was not traumatizing and I tell this story because I find it funny how scared I was.
god sam i love how you sound so happy throughout the video like when you were naming the god forsaken yule elves or whatever you sounded like you were on the verge of laughter im glad you're enjoying yourself with these videos duder ! mUAH
@@dropmelon Actually, during the time when these dudes became mythical, Icelandic people only had one bowl per person. They were called askur and they were used for all meals. They were often left under the bed for cats and dogs to feed from them. They were made of wood and often carved beautifully.
jimmy fox it would escalate to the point where both of them would be rapping full rap god until the universe collapses in on itself due to the concentration of intense rap battling
I RARELY laugh out loud (unless I’m with people, but that’s different), but for some reason “Door Slammer,” and “Sausage Swiper” had me in literal pain trying not to laugh loud af at 3 AM lmao
Imagine this: your just someone’S wife and you just have birth Husband: aww, they’re so cute! You: MMMM DOOORWAY SNIFFER Husband: what? You: HMMM SNIFF THE DOORWAYS CHILD Husband: .... You: GO AND SNIFF OUT THE SOULS OF THE DOORWAYS MY CHILD
Imagine December rolling around and youre in a state of panic cuz nobody got you socks and the pissed off kaiju cat is gonna eat you for dinner as punishment
To complete this list you have to include the Scandinavian/German beast known as Julbocken... The Yule Ramb. Who visits young children at night to scare the crap out of them, occasionally giving them a present afterwards.
Thank you for not lumping me in with all those fairytales. Love you.
Dad
No homo
It's because you're not apscure
Yooooo my bro. Please make my 2019 not miserable.
Eh look it’s J-Dawg
I love the fact that you can hear his voice breaking up while trying to hold in his laughs while explaining the Yule lads
I was thinking that
5:56 you're welcome
BEHOLD
SAUSAGE SWIPER
Lol
@@brblb5425 g
5:57 You can *hear* Sam just smiling and repressing laughter and if he's happy I'm happy.
Probably the most wholesome comment in this entire section
6:13 is better. He's starting to break here.
Try 6:50
Arslayah *s p o o n l i c k e r*
8:34
Fun fact: Candle Stealer also eats the candles he steals
Tasty
wait y’all don’t do that?
@@the-rickster only the large ones. I don't like putting short things in my mouth
@@hendrik7354 okay but like a 4 inch candle is average though right guys
@@the-rickster not average of what I chose
"Thirteen yule lads" [shows twelve yule lads]
Oh god one of them's under my bed now
He's gonna steal your sausage(s)
He missed candle bitter
He’s “Uncovered Nibbler”
Ever wonder why if you leave your arm or leg uncovered at night you feel like something is going to grab it?
That’s him
666 likes let's keep it there
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Me: Owo
So that cat 100% just exists so that kids won’t complain about getting clothes instead of toys right?
My high school history teacher explained that getting clothes meant you worked hard to help out your family throughout the year and this wore out your old clothes. If you didn't get new clothes you weren't helpful enough, so it encourages children to do their chores. This may be wrong, but it's what my teacher told me.
A native icelander here and that the cat didn't eat kids if they didn't get clothes parents kinda just made it up later on to then make the kids stop complaining, also there are like 68 other Yule lads that Grýla had with other giants.
OMG so true
Víkingur Sigurðsson ég held alltaf að jóla kötturinn át krakkanna ef þeir fengu ekki ný föt
Then it would eat you
During the Yule Lads part, I can just hear how you are struggling to not laugh as each one gets more ridiculous than the other XD
@@gayvideos3808
That was hilarious.
I legitimately have tears in my eyes from laughing at that part
thgritic102 I heard him struggle at the sausage one
@@azevol216 I completely lost it at Sausage Swiper
They dont sound that retarded in icelandic
He missed the part in iceland where the Icelandic kids leave their shoe in the window, for the yule lads to give gifts for the nice kids, and potatoes for the missbehaving ones. I remember waking up, checking the window and lurking out to throw the potatoe befor my parenta found out, and seeing my sister (who i had fought with) doing the same
Weird punishment. I could see why no one wants to be eaten by an ogre, but I quite like potatoes.
Icelander here and yesss it was the best thing ever
@@Joshua_Hale its usually a OLD RAW MOLDED potato
Yeah those are the worst kind of potato
I love the fact that the kids get to put their shoe out thing overlaps with the Dutch sinterklaas, but instead of a potato kids here would get a bag of salt.
I love how when you were talking about the Yule Lads, you can hear Sam almost losing it
IKR XD
Yess lmfao
All I could hear was myself losing it lmao
same XD
AnD wHoSe ThAt, It'S dOoRwAy SnIfFeR, hErE tO sNiFf YoUr DoOrS fOr LeFtOvEr BrEaD!
You can just hear Sam keep his laughter when talking about the 13 shitmakers
Who's that up in the rafters? It's sausage swiper of course!
I fucking *lost it* when I read “13 shitmakers”
luccy 13
Fuck you and him I'm dying laughing now.
"13 shitmakers"
I’m going to officially start a band called “Yule Lads” but instead of playing the drums we play freshly licked spoons and bowls.
I'm in.
Can I join I'm already Icelandic and spoon licking is a common pass time
I'll be be the doorslammer to keep the beat
i will sniff the kokain from the crowd
1 2 3
Spoon licker:*click click-a click click-a clicl click click-a*(spoons)
Pot scraper:*Wicka wicka* (like a dj)
someone needs to write a horror story about trying to stay alive during christmas while a bunch of little comedically named elves do random shit in your house. like, super high tension, but no actual danger. i would love that.
Cat in the Hat
Gremlins?
Until the cat, and it's ogre owners come.
Imo it should be a horror comedy where it ends with the Christmas cat eating the whole family
there is something in the barn
Ah I remember the joys of being young on Christmas staying up all night waiting for the doorway sniffer to arrive 😌
@Slatsky August I dont have to imagine
@@hammedburger3712 bruh
Þeta eru fistu jólin mín án þess að hafa
Stúf sog ég ætla að seja HAIIO! Og
Gleðileg jól fyrir okkur öll
Ross Hauler are u actually icelandic?
Wanna know If Icelandic kids would actually do that lmao
@@xxbarry_blyat69xx5 nah but I wish I was so I could be closer to some of these interesting rituals lol
" If you find yourself rap battling a horse skull in South Wales, it's normal I guess"
- Sam O'nella
Let's take some time to realise what he just said
We have Vasilica (a pig head, all dressed up on a pike), going with a crew of young boys around the village to sing before xmas. But you are supposed to open the door, give them money, wine and traditional deserts.
Pre-comercial-era xmas is fascinating in old cultures. You can thank Coca Cola for bringing you the old jolly Santa , with raindeers and gifts.
@@cristinamirelasoare2969 thank you Coca Cola corporation (unironically)
Honestly rap battling a demon sounds awesome, kinda like the tribute music video
@@TheLegonautam Welsh. It's actually pretty cool. I like the concept.
The Yule lads just sound like any college aged roommates
Mostly just doorway-sniffer
@@twistedgwazi5727 or bowl licker, the either stoned constantly or constantly drunk roommate
Especially spoon licker
Candle snatcher just loses all the lighters.
honestly hearing this makes me so look forward to college
I think it's an honorable mention that in Hungary, it's not Santa who brings the presents but Jesus himself
Imagine having to wake up on your birthday to hand out presents to everyone else lmao L
So the reason why Jesus hasn't come back to bring forth rapture and the end of the world is because he's too busy making toys for kids on Christmas?
Im hungarian and i used to think baby jesus flew in the window NAKED and left gifts for us. Since. Thats what they told us💀 mind u the BABY JESUS also had angels dangle bells before he comes so we know he comes
@@greywolf7577sounds about right.
Does he eat people?
I love how random yet specific every Icelandic elf is, Like, They have 1 specific purpose that they do and it's hilarious, Honestly.
candle stealer eats the candles tho
@Steamed Hams it’s the hidden character, panty-swiper
don't forget S A U S A G E S W I P E R
@@indigoon9635 Nah, just hentai protagonist
@@Nelson-gs9yv fuck
I love how you can hear Sam almost break when he says “spoon licker”
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@@thisisahumanlol8255 not anymore .v.
@@brodster7042
Unpog
I broke when he said spoon licker, I laughed to tears
before anyone asks, 6:12
Guys I'm Icelandic and I swear the English translation of the lads names are even weirder then the original...
Also you forgot that candle sweeper eats the candles. A very important note seeing as one time my little sister left a candle for him and my mom had to take a big ass bite out of it.
Did you ask her if it was tasty
I like taking care of kids with all my heart but I honestly dont think I could take a bite out of a fucking candle for one of em
k c r o n c h h
@@sextuspompeius1266 just did, she said it was horrible, don't know why
Lmao the things parents do for their kids lol.
7:17 life changing words. i shed a tear
Kids in America: Sitting next to Santa, while saying what they wish to get
Meanwhile in Wales: YOU RAP BATTLE A FUCKING HORSE-GHOST
Ummmmm Haha huh ha
@Ink I’m welsh too and thankfully I’ve never had to either, I have seen one before when I was about 5 and it was bloody terrifying
@Ink as an american I agree
@Ink then never go to pencoed we have some shit to work out lol
fnf week 8
Mom: How about you go play with the kids next door
The kids next door: 5:57
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so what
@@jimmilton6644
So you want your sausage to be swiped? I wouldn't want my sausage to be swiped by a sausage swiper. Do you want your sausage to be swiped by the sausage swiper, who swipes the sausage?
Haimirich sausage swiper is hot
6:37
Sam O' Nella is like that person who texts you out of the blue once every three months or so.. You're excited they finally said something but mad cause you already know they still aren't going to be consistent.
Oh f*ck he's me.
@@sammiii387 Lmfao
>.> does this mean I'm not good at socializing?
Just be happy he makes tings
@@ffnovice7 Honestly glad he does and hasn't tried to milk it dry. Stay unique Sam O' Nella we love ya!
Having been brought up with German childrens' books, I can tell you that while they may not be intentionally terrifying, a child's mind is quite adept at imaging the most gruesome possible outcome to every situation.
For example:
Hans Guckindieluft.
Roughly, Hans Head-In-The-Air.
The story goes, he lives in a harbor town, and is always - you guessed it - looking up at the sky, and never where he's going.
Naturally, one day on his way to school, he isn't looking where he's going and trips. Not just anyplace, either - over the edge of the seawall into the harbor. The story ends with a colorfully illustrated picture of him falling in the water while the fish scatter.
Except... here's where the catch comes in. I had just done a school project on piranhas, which - and this fact sprang to my mind's forefront as I saw that illustration - a small school of piranhas can strip a fully grown cow down to its skeleton in under five minutes.
I had even made a (rather good) sculpture of a piranha, with box cutter blades for teeth. They were very sharp.
Safe to say, since I live in a city near to an ocean, that for my entire life I have never once looked up at the sky while walking.
Problem solved...?
Jesus Christ that would scare me.
I have my Hans in the air like I just I don’t care
To my knowledge piranhas will only eat a human if they're starving. The cow thing you mentioned was done with piranhas which have been starved for at least a week. Meine Lieblingsgeschichte war damals die Streichhölzer
I love how I can actually hear the amusement in Sam’s usually dead voice during the Yule Lad lineup
4:58
Icelandic person here!
The name of that cat literally just translates to "The Christmas Cat"
We're not very creative. Hope that helps!
Edit: 5:27
The Yule Lads. This translation really really bothers me because they're called Jólasveinar, which is literally just our word for Santa Clause, but plural because there's 13 of them.
Also all of their translated names sound ridiculous!
They are fucking ridiculous
The Yule lads translation is ok but the translated names of them are bad
@@philippcrain yeah, can't argue with you there, but it's just very bizarre to hear when the word "Jólasvein" in Icelandic is just our word for Santa Claus, so the direct translation is very jarring
Blame wikipedia
Does Icelandic read similarly to Finnish? Because I'm familiar with Finnish.
These sound like Rick and Morty characters
"I'm doorway sniffer, and I'm here to sniff your doorways!"
*Justin Roiland"s Morty laugh*
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i crave bread give it to me or i will sniff it out from your doorways
@Sassy Tangerine don't be so sassy, tangerine
@Sassy Tangerine If you keep being sassy, doorway sniffer will come and sniff your doorways
4:10 They're real. You just can't see them because you haven't signed the paperwork
Fellow Hilda fan!
Heh, Hilda reference
Hilda!
Fellow hilda fan i see
Hilda!
Me: *opens presents to find there are no new clothes* *looks at family in dread*
You've damned me.
*loud meowing outside*
Thatspacerat
Come one grandma, you have to have a sweater you meant to give me this year. Please!
Jólakötturinn is still hungry 😉
*MEOW × INFINITE*
This reads like a shitpost
Yeah, especially with the spoon licker part
0:41 Now I know why he disappeared
I’m confused
@LooseCanon PSN oh thank you for explaining it
oh.
*oh.*
@LooseCanon PSN it's Xi Jinping
Oh shit!
okay, so I'm an Icelander and I'm here to tell you he didn't make any of this up lol... And btw Jólakötturinn, you know, the cat, his name just translates to: The Christmas Cat...
looks like so far youve been given new clothes
do you believe in elves 😯😯😂
@@nickd1354 😂haha, no no i dont, but i used to tho😳
makes sense if the candles are tallow
@@nickd1354 my mom Does and Honestly its because were the elves “live” it’s known for construction stuff to be absolutely WRECKED by it’s self
As an Icelander, I thank you for presenting our Yule Lads probably better than anyone else.
However, you did forget the tradition where we put our shoes on the windowsill, so that we get gifts from each of the Yule Lads.
You can tell it was difficult for Sam to list the yule lads without breaking out into laughter.
Doctor bright any thoughts on these as potential SCP’s?
This doesn’t have something to do with you bright…right?
Hey. it's like looking in a mirror
He forgot SCP 4666, the best Christmas-Boy
There's a reason you're not allowed within 50ft. of SCP 343, you asked him to make these things real
pls dont kick your legs like that ever again- im frightened
lmao
Same
o w o
Disgraceful.
Ginger I did not expect to see you here
Weird flax but ok
Sam just sort of quietly laughing while describing ... Sausage Swiper!
Smh its sausage sweeper
Smh I think you mean Sausage Swiper
smh wasn't it meat roll robber?
Who's that up in the rafters?
I have never gotten this many upvotes
nearly 5 years later and the presentation of Doorway Sniffer still gets me so good
1:19
That animation was so difficult to the point where he decided to take a break for years
Hey I know you!
The effort nearly killed him
That and the leg movements for the beginning killed him
3 years almost
This joke aged like fine milk.
The ripping sound of the intestines gave me a heart attack
its just him making fart sounds
Tru tho
mE tOo
same omg it was so loud
Same
doorway sniffer: **SNIIIIIIFFFFFFFF** *WHERE'S THE GODDAMN B R E A D*
B R E A D
Brauð
Wtf is that pfp
ahegao kokichi
@@cassiekittyy *D I S G U S T A N G*
It is a great time to revisit this video on a yearly basis
I hate it when a YULE LAD proceeds to HOOK ALL OF MY PRECIOUS MEAT
Im wondering when he gets renamed to the Beater Meater to piss off vegans
The yule lad steals meat to beat it
You can blame so many crimes on elves in iceland.
The amount of licked spoons you could get away with
Not to mention the pot scrapings, bowl lickings, meat hooking, candle snatching, livestock harrasment, and D O O R W A Y S N I F F I N G that you could do
Not to mention the pot scrapings, bowl lickings, meat hooking, candle snatching, livestock harrasment, and D O O R W A Y S N I F F I N G that you could do
I love how when Sam was listing off all the elves he sounded like he was on the verge of laughter
it started from spoon-licker lmao
E
They aren’t elves >:(
All of the translated names sound like barely used racial slurs from the 50s lmao
Yeah
I love it goes from “Oh you get a penny” to “Your fibres get stamped on” to “YOUR FUCKING ORGANS GET RIPPED OUT AND ARE REPLACED WITH WHEAT AND STONES”
And then there's candle stealer, you get the picture, he eats kids
That's what I expected lmao
The ol switcharoo
Of course
wOaW
Weird flax but ok
Sam: *is trying not to laugh while reading the 13 elf names*
Me: *crying*
'There's pot-scraper, he scrapes POTS'
Dying
They are not elves grýla adopted them they are weird troll things
*_Doorway sniffer_*
Actually theyre supposedly santas as in jolasveinar
Who’s that up in the rafters?
It’s Sausage Swiper of course!
Normal person: Gay
Me, an intellectual: S A U S A G E S W I P E R
I see that you have acsended
He’s figured it out, the solution to life
Me, a god: *s w I p I n s t u*
I'm here to swipe your sausage
@@mothersandfuckersofthejury5416 yes pls
I like how he says Spoon-licker is malnourished "for some reason," as if the name doesn't kinda explain why.
It's as if that's the joke
@@kim_tork52 based on how casually he said it, I don't think that was the intended joke.
@@michaelfort143 dry humor
@@kim_tork52 maybe but it sounds off from Sam's usual delivery.
@@michaelfort143 driest of dry
I love that he's trying to not laugh while explaining the Yule lads lmao
Icelandic child trying to sleep:
Window peeeper at their window: O_O
Lmao
👁👄👁
👁️👄👁️
Í am also from Iceland and I like him.
Yule Man
in the north of Spain we have the Tió de Nadal which is just a log covered with a blanket so it doesn't get cold and children are supposed to beat it with sticks
Are the Spanish normally this high?
@@Recasens01 I think the world should start worshipping the magic gift shitting log
I read that as dog...
wood abuse
I'm pretty sure they were like
Spanish culture after the Inquisition: yo all these other countries have Santa n shit but we don't have nuthin
Also Spanish culture after the Inquisition: logs
Man dad being from iceland did the yule lads. Each night leading up to Christmas he would set up the house to make it seem like one of the yule lads visited. If it was Þvörusleikir / spoon licker, my dad would scatter spoons over the house and say Þvörusleikir did it, and if it was Skyrgámur we would leave out Skyr at night and in the morning it would be all eaten, with Hurðaskellir / door slammer my dad would slam doors in the middle of the night before hoping back in bed to pretend to be asleep. And my mom who was from lauterbrunnen switzerland did Krampus but instead of saying he would eat us if we were bad she told us he would tell santa not to visit our house and he would come instead and leave sticks and stones. One year my older brother got sticks and stones in his stocking with a note saying "although you may still have gifts under the tree your stocking has none, let this be a warning to you next time it will not only be your stocking but all of your gifts shall be replaced with sticks and stones" Gruß vom Krampus /
Greetings from Krampus. This happened to my brother because he got expelled from school for purposely flooding the school bathroom. And those are my stories on how my parents mixed their Christmas cultures together to make my family's Christmas traditions
the 13 yule lads sound like some ten year old's OCs
20secondsofsnake For real!
Who would NOT have a OC named sausage swiper
20secondsofsnake I am very confused about your name...
Doorway sniffer
Original oc do not steal
Drake P. Bowl scraper is my new oc
DON’T STEAL
He's not kidding about the yule lads. I went to Iceland last year and bought not only a book about the yule lads but a foot tall statue of spoon licker.
No shit?
《REÐJIVE》 No shit. I’m completely serious
Iceland you’re weird!
Pics or it didn't happen-
Nah I believe you Iceland does kinda sound like they have those stuff
Money well spent if you ask me 👍
America: hey guys look its Santa with his gifts!
Germany: *I'M HERE FOR YOUR I N T E S T I N E S.*
Yes, as we all know, the main purpose of germany is a) steal kids intestines and b) to invade france
it actaully is from austria not germany
@@biziwee53 Austria is just Special Germany
@@NordisktLejon you wouldn't say that to my face
@@biziwee53 now that sounds like something a Special German would say!
The fact that Sam was on the verge of losing it throughout the entire Yule Lads section makes it 100x funnier
That Mari Lwyd tradition actually sounds really fun.
Unless u shit at rhyming
Unfortunately It's not widely taken part in, more cool history than a living tradition
Honestly I just wanna see this tradition play out, who wouldn't like watching someone try to rap battle a horse ghost trying to raid your pantry and take your beer?
I saw one when I was younger (I lived in north wales at the time) and a was so terrified I genuinely developed a fear of horses. I lived next to a field of sheep (I know could it get any more stereotypically welsh) and every time one of them would bleat I would be terrified it was some horse demon coming to kill me and my family at night.
@@brambledepig2341 this sh*t is making me cackle I cannot even imagine how scared I would’ve been as a child
Door-slammer looks like the typical “guy coming out of quarantine” stereotype
agreed
Nah. If he was, only one of his arms would be buff.
Quarantine is the best time to work out I've lifted alot of weight and pushups
@@brettkane9175 Like when Quagmire didcovered Internet p0rn.
Doorway slammer sounds like me on acid.
“So if you ever find yourself having a rap battle with a horse scull in South Wales don’t worry it’s normal”
- Sam O’Nella
Quoute of the year
Skull and yeah lmao
*_s c u l l_*
Sall
Wow thanks for your amazing insights on the English language which i am not native too
@Eddryonedied fuck you beat me to it.
4:40 "Just because there's a goalie doesn't mean you can't score!"
-Torbek the Owlbear
Growing up in Iceland it was perfectly normal to have two trolls, a giant cat and 13 santas at christmas. So when I found out america only has one santa that flies around on a sled all I could think was, huh..that's weird.
Wow same 😂
*AY GET YOUR CAT PLEASE HE'S TRYING TO GET IN TF GET YOUR CA*
JÁ MAÐUR DJÖFULL ELSKA ÉG AÐ KLIFRA UPP Á EYJARFJALLAJÖKULL
...but the trolls that devoured children never seemed weird?
@@SailorSabol nah
Stand name: *[Doorway sniffer]*
Don't you mean
STAND NAME:
「D O O R W A Y S N I F F E R」
STAND MASTER
[MARI LWYD]
STAND NAME
[YULE LADS]
All the yule lads sound like stand names, mines spoon licker.
Stand ability: sniff doors
Stand:window watcher
Ability: can view through all transparent surfaces within a foury-eight meter radius.
This man just made a Chinese president joke before it was cool
IlluZion I was looking for this comment
IlluZion Союз Советских Социалистических Республик? Comrade
@@Paul-yl6uf да братан
IlluZion Я немного говорю по-русски, но не так много, как хотелось бы. :( Все хорошо, товарищ. 👋
@@Paul-yl6uf same here, I understand way more than I speak but it's such a fascinating language
This was the first video I watched from this channel, and it’s still my favorite ❤
I'm from iceland and I thank you for explaining my culture better than anyone (I was so confused when I heard about English santa claus like what nobody gets eaten?! )
Icelandic person:"...Ok! So the reindeer! The reindeer are the ones who get to eat the kids! Got it!"
Explainer:"No and what the hell is wrong with you?"
IntermediateJesus, What about the elves? One of them have got to eat someone at least??
that's it I'm moving to iceland, 2nd Halloween
Haha me too
Hey another Icelandic human
The Yule Lads would make a great seasonal netflix series.
It’s in an episode of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, but instead of being funny they kinda try to kill you
Anubis yepp
@@phrax6767 seems about right
It's crazy because they were in an episode of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina but also not really in it 💀
You know? I’d binge watch that.
When Sam called the president of China Winnie the poo I found why he went *missing* for all these months.
@Andres Duarte Ortiz man waited 2 weeks to do that
@Andres Duarte Ortiz uh oh
@@alegsb3943 died this afternoon because of a work acident
@@GustavoGomes-nn5np aha! But I lived!
Oh no... S-Sam u good...?
I have arrived to watch this absolute banger on Christmas Eve at exactly 10:51 pm EST, 2023. Thank you Sam for making some of the best content on the platform. Love ya man.
The Yule Lads sound like legends
FBI oh shit the FBI found out
Welp i have expirience since me am icelandic its very scary
FBI sir step aside
how are the investigations on T-series going?
FBI a cop is giving me a fine for calling him a hypocrite, can you bomb his house, thx he has loli porn on his laptop.
Spoon licker had me dying, and then BOWL LICKER comes out and one ups the spoon guy
Almost dropped my bag of cashews when this notification dropped on my desktop
I literally just sprained my ankle running to my laptop owwww heh
Yo I was also eating cashews
I almost accidentally clicked out of the drop down menu for the notification (but then I clicked it the right way.)
Read it as "Bag of chainsaws"
@@ugli968 Don't drop those.
It's always nice to come back to these holiday classics when the weather starts to get cold
Violets are blue,
French queens have no head
*HE SNIFFS YOUR DOORWAY*
*AND SEEKS OUT YOUR BREAD*
This deserves more love
I'm more concerned as to why French queens lack certain essential body parts.
@@mrflip-flop3198 People of royalty oftenly got beheaded during the revolution in france
You seem prepared for the Mari Lwyd
@@Abdega i learned everything it knew, losing is unlikely.
Why are sam’s drawings much more terrifying than the actual myths
For accuracy purposes
Dude i wanna see how he would draw SCP's, would it be more or less horrifying?
@@strixmix3541 I wish he had talked about the yule man scp here
No sausage swiper don't swipe my sausages
Sausage swiper: swipe swipe, hurry up spoon licker we gotta go
Spoon licker: *furiously licks spoon*
Bowl licker: *_LICC LICC BOWLL_*
I don't have any context for this I havnt watched the video yet help
Door-Sniffer : *s n i f s*
Door-Sniffer : Is that cocaine?
@@AsianSaIad
Door-Slammer : *F B I, O P E N U P*
I'm Icelandic and when I was a kid, I was misbehaving during Jól (Christmas) and my uncle told me that he will rat me out to Grýla. He told me that he knew her and he was going to bring me to her if I didn't behave. I was so afraid and scared that I started crying and begging to not be boiled alive in her cauldron. Btw, this was not traumatizing and I tell this story because I find it funny how scared I was.
god sam i love how you sound so happy throughout the video
like when you were naming the god forsaken yule elves or whatever you sounded like you were on the verge of laughter
im glad you're enjoying yourself with these videos duder !
mUAH
HIS ALMOST-LAUGHING WAS THE BEST HONESTLY
He sound s like he’s gonna laugh the most in 6:16 and 6:39, also 6:50
im
im sorry his name is sam?
Im the 666th like
Has anyone else noticed that the animation has been getting better and better?
He can actually move now. I don't know if that's a good thing though.
Its because of skillshare! /s
MoccaDocca aw, you beat me to it
You can only go up when your drawing stick figures
yes the real sam was kidnapped and replaced with a new sam
An absolute Mystery, how Bowl Licker could remain properly fed while Spoon Licker is malnourished.
Bla Icelandic people must have used only the biggest bowls in the house because Christmas.
More food in bowls than spoons
I guess from people that didn't fish their food yet and got too lazy to clean the dishes right away.
@@dropmelon Actually, during the time when these dudes became mythical, Icelandic people only had one bowl per person. They were called askur and they were used for all meals. They were often left under the bed for cats and dogs to feed from them. They were made of wood and often carved beautifully.
@@hmmmok1924 Unless someone celebrates Christmas alone, I can't see how the bowl licker wouldn't be well fed :p
Third year in a row returning to watch this around the ~Christmas season~
'Tis tradition for me at this point
I like how you can hear his barely contained laugher while he's listing the Yule Lads
Mari lwyd
V. S.
Eminem
jimmy fox it would escalate to the point where both of them would be rapping full rap god until the universe collapses in on itself due to the concentration of intense rap battling
Eminem was too afraid to dis Mari Lwyd
@@radiopenis1011 eminem doesn't diss good rappers (rappers he respects)
Top 10 best anime battles.
Imagine an anime of that
"Its sausage swiper,
hes here to swipe all your sausages of course"
Me in my head: *swiper no swiping...-*
Holy Jesus.... god damn you, you made me piss myself laughing
UwU
Mama Mia! My penis got stolen!
In true christmas spirit I am watching this for the holidays
You could tell he was trying not to laugh when going through the yule lads, that is one of my fav Sam moments straight away
I RARELY laugh out loud (unless I’m with people, but that’s different), but for some reason “Door Slammer,” and “Sausage Swiper” had me in literal pain trying not to laugh loud af at 3 AM lmao
Same
I love door slammer
Doorway Sniffer and skyr Gobbler had me on the floor
i like bowl licker
Window peeper really got me
If you ever find yourself rap battling a horse skull
*DON’T WORRY IT’S PERFECTLY NORMAL*
I guess
Weird flax but ok
Top 10 rappers Eminem was too scared to diss
As one does
I like how so many of these are just, "Do what I say or I'll kick your ass and blame it on a gremlin."
1:55 One of the rappers Eminem was too scared to diss
We see here one of the few funny memes on the internet
in english, the cat of gryla and leppalúði (jólakötturinn) literally just translates to "the christmas cat"
"If you find yourself rap battling a horse skull, don't panic"
"Its normaĺ"
4:32 "THERE'S A WILD GORILLA ON THE LOOSE?!" -Chuckles the clown
Doorway sniffer
That is literally the best name in the world
Imagine this: your just someone’S wife and you just have birth
Husband: aww, they’re so cute!
You: MMMM DOOORWAY SNIFFER
Husband: what?
You: HMMM SNIFF THE DOORWAYS CHILD
Husband: ....
You: GO AND SNIFF OUT THE SOULS OF THE DOORWAYS MY CHILD
What about Bowl-licker?
@Armp1tTheNormalGuy Life’s great like that.
Sounds like a stand
@@jakesouthern4050 such an underrated comment
WOAH WHOS THAT UP IN THE RAFTERS
ITS SAUSAGE SWIPER
Here to swipe your sausages
Swiper no swiping
Swiper no swiping
Swiper no swiping
You bet your ass it window peeper
Your animation is getting better and it's scary.
You goober
@@donkeyhobo34 Gully Gawk
No one man should have all that power
🅱️
Maybe the drawing, but animation is as bad as it always was
Imagine December rolling around and youre in a state of panic cuz nobody got you socks and the pissed off kaiju cat is gonna eat you for dinner as punishment
You can hear Sam hold back his laughter
That isn’t him trying to hold in his laughter, it is an elf holding him hostage and is succing his intestines
Oh boy
"Wierd flax, but okay."
- samonella 2019
cut that out, jesus
*weird
too bad the vid is made in 2018 :thonk:
The video is from 2018...
Best pun of all times
Sam is an Absolute Yule Lad
In awe at the size of this lad, *absolute unit*
You stole my damn comment idea
like #666
I don’t like you
He annoys kids by sayng "hey kids"
To complete this list you have to include the Scandinavian/German beast known as Julbocken... The Yule Ramb. Who visits young children at night to scare the crap out of them, occasionally giving them a present afterwards.
Those were supposed to be scary? The ones made of straw?!