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Icelandic
Etymology
A child receives one small gift each night from one of the 13 Yule Lads. The present is placed into the child's shoe which the child has placed onto its window sill. A disobedient child receives a potato.
Verb
fá í skóinn
- To receive a present from the Icelandic Yule Lads
- að fá kartöflu í skóinn ― receive coal in one's stocking (literally, “receive a potato in one's shoe”)
- Hvað fékkstu í skóinn? ― What did you get in your stocking?