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Who will gobble you up if don't get any gifts this Christmas? The Yule Cat, of course! Iceland is replete with spooky stories of haunting holiday characters. In this lecture, Drs. Lauren Poyer and Colin Connors will share some of their favorite spooky Icelandic Christmas stories from medieval sagas and early modern folklore. Come dressed in your favorite (or ugliest) holiday sweater!
Illustrations by Samuel Allen for PBS.
Dr. Lauren Poyer is an associate teaching professor in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Dr. Colin Gioia Connors is a lecturer and electronic media producer in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington, where he teaches classes in Viking studies and folkloristics and produces the department’s outreach podcast "Crossing North." His research includes landscape archaeology, Old Norse studies, North American Indigenous communities, and digital storytelling.
