Iceland, Yule Cat
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Pohatu Nuva
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Tuesday, September 14, 2021
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Origin:
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Iceland
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In A Little Chaos - Grace O'Brien Reserve
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Iceland, Yule Cat - 15 Year Anniversary Tag
I want to see Wildlife and Animals all over the World. Just don't keep me very long and don't put in the middle of a cache in wildness where are no visitors.
The Yule Cat is a huge and vicious cat who is described as lurking about the snowy countryside during Christmas time and eating people who have not received any new clothes to wear before Christmas Eve. He is the house pet of Gryla and her sons.
Though referred to as an ancient tradition, written accounts of the Yule Cat have only been located as recently as the 19th century. The threat of being eaten by the Yule Cat was used by farmers as an incentive for their workers to finish processing the autumn wool before Christmas. The ones who took part in the work would be rewarded with new clothes, but those who did not would get nothing and thus would be preyed upon by the monstrous cat. The cat has alternatively been described as merely eating away the food of ones without new clothes during Christmas feasts. The perception of the Yule Cat as a man-eating beast was partly popularized by poems of Jóhannes úr Kötlum as with the rest of the folklore.
Cat in Icelandic is Köttur, but as Icelandic words take on different forms depending on the sentence, then it can also be Kött, Ketti, and Kattar. And in plural that's Kettir, Ketti, Köttum and Kattar. And then there are some other words such as Kisa (e. kittie) and Kettlingur (e. kitten). A tomcat is called Högni, and a female is called Læða.
Cats have been around in Iceland for centuries, or since Iceland was settled in 870. The Icelandic cat is closely related to cats from Skåne in Sweden, the Faroe Islands, and the Shetland Islands, but much more distantly related to the cat breeds in the rest of the United Kingdom. The cats in Iceland's countryside are more original breed than those in Reykjavík, that have bred with imported species.
Pohatu Nuva 15 Year Anniversary Tag
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Wombatwandering took it to Doha Airport Bridge
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Qatar
- 3,251.78 miles
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مرحبا بكم في قطر! Welcome to Qatar! You are meant to be in Hong Kong but all the flights were cancelled because it was being battered by category 4 Typhoon Saola. We were rerouted through Doha instead. Better that than danger! 🇶🇦
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Wombatwandering took it to Heathrow 2nd TB Hotel
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London, United Kingdom
- 6.63 miles
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No rest for you. You have a long haul plane to catch so it’s back to Heathrow. Grab your passport. 🛫
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Wombatwandering took it to Elizabeth Gate
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London, United Kingdom
- 601.99 miles
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Welcome to London, the United Kingdom. I thought I had better do some cache maintenance on my caches along the River Thames in Kew and Barnes. Luckily there was this lovely new cache out the front of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew. 🇬🇧
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Wombatwandering took it to Airport TB Hotel
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Denmark
- 548.88 miles
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Bare et hurtigt stop i København, Danmark, til dig. Just a quick stop in Copenhagen, Denmark, for you. My plane from Helsinki did not rely on British air traffic controllers because I had to change planes in Denmark. I thought I might just be moving the problem on but my connecting flight was totally unaffected and took off as scheduled. I was looking forward to some more time in Copenhagen! 🇩🇰
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Wombatwandering took it to KURVI
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Finland
- 1.72 miles
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It absolutely poured in Helsinki today. OMG. I even had to buy an umbrella. Found a few more Geopoly caches and then it was off to the airport. Goodbye and thanks to my Finnish family. On the train to the airport, Geodaughter sent a message saying that there was technical glitch and the UK had shut their airspace. Hundreds of flights delayed or cancelled. The rest of the London cachers were already delayed for their direct flight but had left the European Union area so I couldn’t even had a beer with them while they waited. 🛩️
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Wombatwandering took it to Helsinki Geopoly – Rantatie
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Finland
- 1.69 miles
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These Geopoly caches in Helsinki are fantastic. You actually have to play a game to get the next coordinates (….if you play without cheating, which I am….). You’ve had to criss cross Helsinki with me but the caches themselves are top quality, the public transport here is excellent, and the city itself is not very big. 🎲
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Wombatwandering took it to UrbanHEL
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Finland
- 5.54 miles
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Yay - made it to UrbanHEL, the Helsinki MEGA. Signed the street art log wall, played with the trackables, did some labs, found some caches, caught up with geocaching friends, met other geocachers, and bought some coins - all the usual things. Then my time was up because I’m balancing geocaching with seeing my ‘brother’ Mikko and we had dinner reservations at a Michelin restaurant. You can only imagine how frighteningly expensive that was in Helsinki. 💸
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Wombatwandering took it to Phobias III - Cameraphobia
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Finland
- 16.81 miles
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Webcam time. Got to grab them where you can. Met up with the GIM crew and Simo from Finland. Found a few caches in this area and then Simo and I broke away to go to the Mega while the others continued their icon run. 📹
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Wombatwandering took it to Sun Gear
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Finland
- 15.38 miles
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You met up with the other London cachers and travelled out to Sun Gear, Finland’s oldest geocache. It was in a lovely forested area but the mosquitoes were plentiful. From there, we worked our way back towards Helsinki adding more cachers to our group as we went. Super fun day. 🦟
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Wombatwandering took it to KoKo - Suomen kaarti
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Finland
- 49.95 miles
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Tervetuloa Suomeen. Välkommen till Finland. Welcome to Finland.
You boarded the ferry, The Tallink Megastar, and arrived in Helsinki, Finland. It’s good to be back. This is a bit of a home away from home for me because my family had a Finnish boy live with us for a year and we are still great friends. Coincidentally bumped into my Belguim geofriend at a cache. Everyone is here for the MEGA. 🇫🇮
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