“Hey! What’s this?”
cried Window Peeper to the swooping, crashing Puffin.
“Come, come,” it squawked.
“Door Sniffer says meet in Finland.
We have whale-ride ready for you.”
“Whale? Sweeeet….”
Howled Gully Gawk. “Let’s go!”
They followed the weaving puffin, who waddled into a fast
run, desperately flapping its wings to awkwardly gain flight. Ducking from building to trees, the Yule Lads
kept out of sight of humans, making their way to the coast.
They arrived at the Baltic Sea just as night fell and they waded
out to the waiting whales. Window Peeper
and Candle Beggar
jumped
on one, while Gully Gawk and Sheep Cote Clod scrambled atop the other. The whales took off across the Sea towards
Finland, diving and jumping through the water, the Lads hanging on for the ride
of their life.
“Whoo Hoo!”
The puffin flew off to deliver the same instructions to the
group of Yule Lad trolls on the trawler once it docked in Norway. He flew fast and made it to the port to find
the ship deserted and watched as the five stowaway Yule Lads snuck ashore.
“Stufur!” he squawked, wings flapping wildly as he crashed in
the troll’s head.
“What the? Arrgggg,
what does Door Slammer want now?” Stufur growled. “He always sends message by puffin!”
“He says to go to Finland, that you would know where and why,”
the puffin said in his whistles and clicks.
“Hah!” Sufur replied,
rolling his eyes with a fiendish smile. “Oh, Yes, I know! Our favorite kind of Troll Trouble!” he
shouted to his troll-brothers.
#Trolls
#Iceland
#Christmas
#YuleLads
Written by Heidi Herman, Illustrated by Colleen Stiles
#Trolls
#Iceland
#Christmas
#YuleLads
Written by Heidi Herman, Illustrated by Colleen Stiles
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