Stekkjastaur

Stekkjastaur kom fyrstur,
stinnur eins og tré.
Hann laumaðist í fjárhúsin
og lék á bóndans fé.

Hann vildi sjúga ærnar,
- þá var þeim ekki um sel,
því greyið hafði staurfætur,
- það gekk nú ekki vel.

A translation to English that I found somewhere:
Gimpy was the first,
Stiff like a tree.
He snuck into the stables,
And fooled the farmer's sheep.

He wanted to suck milk from them,
- They did not care for that,
And because he had peg-legs
- It did not go too well.

The Icelandic Yuletide Lads are 13. The first one of them came down from the mountains this morning. Kids all over Iceland put a shoe out in their window and he gave them something in it - hopefully. When Father saw what he had put in his daughters' shoes last night (they had already been here when the Parents went to bed), he thought he had been rather cheap. But Mother thought it was great, she had been hoping that the Yuletide Lads would know that they girls needed new bibs. I know that he had some problems with Sólveig Lilja though. He couldn't find her shoe. He searched and searched and finally found it on her foot!

Here are links to more information on these guys:
Christmas/Yule in Iceland
Christmas Lads at the national Museum of Iceland
The Icelandic Yuletide Lads
Yuletide Lads at the National Museum
The Yuletide Lads and their parents