Candle Beggar leaves

January 6th, no longer will you children be chased by Candle Beggar.  Now all the Yule Lads are gone.

Meat Hook has left

January 5th, your meat is now safe from this hooked goblin.

Door Sniffer leaves

January 4th, your doors will be sniff free.

Window Peeper leaves

January 3rd, after two weeks of peeping, Window Peeper leaves only to come back next year.

Sausage Thief leaves your house

January 2nd, your sausages are safe.

Skyr Glutton leaves your house

January 1st, Happy New Year, this Yule Lad has just received his burn notice.  Your yogurt is safe.

Door Slammer leaves your house

December 31th, you can sleep well without being awaken by your doors.

Bowl Licker leaves

December 30th, the Yule Lad that hid under your bed and licked your bowls leaves.

Pot Licker or Pot Scraper leaves your house

December 29th, You know longer have to worry about your pots being stolen.

Spoon Licker leaves your house

December 28th, You no longer have worry about a strange tongue licking your spoons.

Stubby or Shorty leaves your house

December 27th, Now you have to clean your own pots again.

Gully Gawk leaves your house

December 26th, You can now enjoy your milk foam again.

Sheep-Cote Clod or Sheep Worrier leaves your house

December 25th, 
Merry Christmas!
Your sheep can now sleep peacefully.

Yule Lad #13 Candle Beggar

In a day when candles were rarer and the only source of light, every child wanted one.  This final Yule Lad who follows your children begging for candles for consumption and light...

The thirteenth was Candle Beggar
- ‘twas cold, I believe,
if he was not the last
of the lot on Christmas Eve.
He trailed after the little ones
who, like happy sprites,
ran about the farm with
their fine tallow lights.[1]

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]

Yule Lad #11 Door Sniffer

Door Sniffer sniffs your door and steals your freshly baked bread.  Just remember that noise you hear, might be Door Sniffer sniffing outside your door...

Eleventh was Door Sniffer,
a doltish lad and gross.
He never got a cold, yet had
a huge, sensitive nose.
He caught the scent of lace bread
while leagues away still
and ran toward it weightless
as wind over dale and hill.

Yule Lad #10 Window Peeper

Window Peeper is a weird little twit who peeps through your window and may try to steal your stuff if he likes what he sees...

The tenth was Window Peeper,
a weird little twit,
who stepped up to the window
and stole a peek through it.
And whatever was inside
to which his eye was drawn,
he most likely attempted
to take later on.[1]

Yule Lad #9 Sausage Swiper or Sausage Thief

As his name suggests...he steals your sausages...

The ninth was Sausage Swiper,
a shifty pilferer.
He climbed up to the rafters
and raided food from there.
Sitting on a crossbeam
in soot and in smoke,
he fed himself on sausage
fit for gentlefolk.

Yule Lad #8 Skyr Gobbler

Skyr was an Icelandic dairy product similar to yogurt.  These pranking goblins get progressively worse.  If Skyr Gobbler does come to your house who is to say that he hasn't a taste for yogurt?  For the next two weeks we might find out...

Skyr Gobbler, the eighth,
was an awful stupid bloke.
He lambasted the skyr tub
till the lid on it broke.
Then he stood there gobbling
- his greed was well known -
until, about to burst,
he would bleat, howl and groan.

Yule Lad #7 Door Slammer

Door Slammer slams your doors while you try to sleep...

The seventh was Door Slammer,
a sorry, vulgar chap:
When people in the twilight
would take a little nap,
he was happy as a lark
with the havoc he could wreak,
slamming doors and hearing
the hinges on them squeak.[1]