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Creatures in Norse mythology (6 C, 28 P) T. Trolls (3 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Scandinavian legendary creatures" The following 47 pages are in this category, out ...
Mother Troll and Her Sons by Swedish painter John Bauer, 1915. Troll (Norwegian and Swedish), trolde (Danish) is a designation for several types of human-like supernatural beings in Scandinavian folklore. [27] They are mentioned in the Edda (1220) as a monster with many heads. [28] Later, trolls became characters in fairy tales, legends and ...
In Swedish folklore, the Storsjöodjuret (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈstûːrɧøːʊˌjʉːrɛt], literally "The Great-Lake Monster" [a]) is a lake monster said to live in the 90-metre-deep (300 ft) lake Storsjön in Jämtland in the middle of Sweden. The lake monster is first attested in a 1635 manuscript, according to which the sea/lake ...
Origin: Nordic Folklore. The mythical Kraken is one of the scariest monsters ever imagined. One of the earliest mentions of the gigantic cephalopod came from Swedish King Sverre of Norway in 1180 ...
Folklore from Sweden. Subcategories. This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total. + Swedish folklorists (2 C, 16 P) F. Swedish fairy tales (5 P) L.
A Skogsrå meeting a man, as portrayed by artist Per Daniel Holm in the 1882 book Svenska folksägner. The Skogsrå (Swedish: skogsrået [ˈskʊ̂ksˌroːɛt] ⓘ; lit. ' the Forest Rå '), Skogsfrun ('the Mistress of the Forest'), Skogssnuvan, Skogsnymfen ('the Forest Nymph'), Råndan ('the Rå') or Huldran, is a mythical female creature (or rå) of the forest in Swedish folklore.
In later Scandinavian folklore, trolls became beings in their own right, where they live far from human habitation, are not Christianized, and are considered dangerous to human beings. Depending on the source, their appearance varies greatly; trolls may be ugly and slow-witted, or look and behave exactly like human beings, with no particularly ...
A "draug" from modern Scandinavian folklore [79] aboard a ship, in sub-human form, wearing oilskins. In later Scandinavian folklore, the draug (modern continental Scandinavian spelling), or dröger and drög in archaic Swedish, became synonymous with regular ghosts and thereof in general, sometimes with no clear distinction at all. [1]