Yule Lad #12 Meat Hook

In Iceland, Saint Thorlac Thorhalli was declared a Saint by the Icelandic Parliament in 1198.  Later the Pope officially canonized him in 1984.  St Thorlak's Day is celebrated in Iceland on the December 23 (the day of his death) and is considered the last day to prepare for Christmas cooking as Christmas Eve is tomorrow.[1] Meat Hook sneaks into a house and hides in chimneys and roofs lowing his hook to steal meat smoking or boiling...

Meat Hook, the twelfth one,
his talent would display
as soon as he arrived
on Saint Thorlak's Day.
He snagged himself a morsel
of meet of any sort,
although his hook at times was
a tiny bit short.[2]