title: Icelandic yul lads: the transformation of the folklore characters
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Zharov, Boris
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-07-15T18:00:45Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-07-15T18:00:45Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2016-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu21.2016.110
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/6795
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article deals with the history of appearance and transformation of folklore
  characters of Icelandic Yul lads, who bring gifts to children on Christmas Eve. The thirteen Yul lads appear every night beginning from December the 12th in strict order.
  After presenting gifts to children they wander around the house for two weeks and
  steal food or lick plates and pots in secret. Each of them has got its name, character and
  preferences. Transformation of these creatures was happening gradually in Icelandic
  literature. It would be natural to suppose that these characters have been existing since
  Iceland settlement, but ancient Nordic Mythology has not got them at all. Yul lads were
  first mentioned in the poem by Stefán Ólafsson in the 17th century. Their appearance
  differs from the present one and resembles those trolls living in mountains who are
  huge and scary. New details in their appearance were born in the poems in the 18th
  century. They are becoming less frightening. Their number is unstable and is changing
  in the course of time. The next changing happened in the 19th century. The fairy
  tales collector Jón Árnason published a fairy tale in his collection where 13 Yul lads
  were described. This number has become officially recognised. These characters were
  canonized only in the 20th century. The Icelandic poet, writer and musician Jóhannes
  Bjarni Jónasson writing poems under the name of Jóhannes úr Kötlum (Jóhannes from
  Kötlum) in 1932 collected all the versions of fairy tales with Yul lads and created his
  own image of them which is considered to be canonized in present Iceland.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 14; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Nordic Mythology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Icelandic folklore
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Christmas traditions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: trolls
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Icelandic Yul lads
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Icelandic yul lads: the transformation of the folklore characters
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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