Sheep-Cote Clod, Stekkjastaur
Sheep-Cote Clod, Stekkjastaur
Sheep-Cote Clod
The first Yuletide Lad comes to town on 12 December. His name is Sheep-Cote Clod and he used to try to suckle the yews in the farmers' sheep sheds.
The first of them was Sheep-Cote Clod.
He came stiff as wood,
to prey upon the farmer's sheep
as far as he could.He wished to suck the ewes,
but it was no accident
he couldn't; he had stiff knees
- not to convenient.
From the poem The Yuletide Lads by Jóhannes úr Kötlum. English translation by Hallberg Hallmundsson.
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