Yuletide Lad No.12: Ketkrókur (Meat Hook)

Ketkrókur (Meat Hook) arrives and adores all meat. In the olden days he would lower a hook down the kitchen chimney and pull up a leg of lamb hanging from a rafter, or a bit of smoked lamb from a pan...

Meat Hook, the twelfth one,
his talent would display
as soon as he arrived
on Saint Thorlak's Day.


He snagged himself a morsel
of meat of any sort,
although his hook at times was
a tiny bit short.

English translation/Copyright © Hallberg Hallmundsson.

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