Little Bear: Hello!!!
Stúfur jumps in fright and stumbles over a small stone on the ground and hides behind a boulder: Who is that yelling ?
Little Bear: It is just me, a little polar bear.
Stúfur peeks around the boulder: What are you doing here scaring people?
Little Bear: I am auditioning for your job.
Stúfur forgetting his fright. Jumps in front of the boulder that he had been hiding behind and said:
My job is not available to you or anyone else.......He then remembered that he was frightened and hid behind the boulder again.
Little Bear: I am cute and little, so that qualifies me.
Stúfur: Ah!!! but are you good at getting the frying pan and scraping and eating all the scraps off said pan?
Little Bear tilting his head from side to side: What is a frying pan? .....I don't think we have those on the North Pole.
Stúfur came from behind the boulder again, grinding his toe in the sand: You are cute, I will give you that, however, a frying pan is a big part of my job. I am so very sorry, you do not qualify. Go back to you Mamma...she is probably frantic with worry about loosing you.
Little Bear: OK!!! I just though...since I am little and cute....he then started crying.
Stúfur also started crying and put his arm around Little Bear and said: Come with me I will show you what a frying pan is...but you have to be ever so quiet.
They walked away arm in arm Little Bear with a big grin on his face.
Stúfur....Stubby. He is very small and timid,he is afraid of his aggressive brothers, hardly dares to do any mischief at all. He waits in the corner of the kitchen, where the housewife is frying the meat, in the hope that she will leave the pan behind. Stúfur lives in anticipation, sometimes he is lucky, sometimes he is not.
The costumes that I used for the Jolasveinar, is based on the Icelandic costume the men wore in the 18th century.
Sheep skin shoes (saudskinnskor), that were very thin and without soles and had hand knit inserts (leppar). Imagine walking in these shoes over the lava fields.
Short breeches and hand knit woolen socks, nice and warm.
A sweater loosely based on the lopapeysa,I say loosely as the designs I have made on the Jolasveinar sweaters, are not as ornate and intricate as the real thing.
Mittens (vettlingar) and a woolen hat.
