In collaboration with author/illustrator Rán Flygenring, Hallgrímur Helgason has published a children’s Christmas poetry book that plays on the local classic “Jólin koma” (Christmas Are Coming) by renown poet Jóhannes úr Kötlum, a book that was originally published in Iceland in 1932. It tells the stories of the thirteen Yule-Lads, tales that the old poet adopted from Icelandic folklore and made them fit for modern society. Now Hallgrímur has taken those stories further and made up his own thirteen Yule-Gals and dedicated a small poem to each of them, telling about their story and a little about their character. Just like their famous brothers, the girls are all pranksters, daughters of Grýla, the famous woman-troll, that has been feared for centuries by all Icelandic children.