Grýla
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gr-la-211-1416353
title:
Grýla
text:
In Icelandic folklore, Grýla is a monstrous entity who lives in the wilderness of Iceland. The name Grýla is first attested in medieval sources. However, the earliest unambiguous references to Grýla's gender and her association with Christmas date only from the seventeenth century. In seventeenth-century poems about Grýla, she is generally represented as a hideous and greedy ogress who wanders between human settlements and demands charity from those she encounters, often asking for naughty child
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Folklore from Iceland during Christmas
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BDla
date created:
2006-11-17T00:28:17Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T00:01:24Z
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13
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