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A tomtenisse made of salt dough.A common Scandinavian Christmas decoration, 2004. Modern vision of a nisse, 2007. A nisse (Danish:, Norwegian: [ˈnɪ̂sːə]), tomte (Swedish: [ˈtɔ̂mːtɛ]), tomtenisse, or tonttu (Finnish:) is a household spirit from Nordic folklore which has always been described as a small human-like creature wearing a red cap and gray clothing, doing house and stable ...
The English edition, The Tomten and the Fox, was published the same year. [1] In 2012, 52 years after the publication of the first German edition of Tomte Tummetott (The Tomten), Lindgren's version of the book was first published in Swedish. That year the German publisher found her original writings in his archives and brought it back to Sweden.
"Tomten", also known as "Midvinternattens köld är hård", is a poem written by Viktor Rydberg, and originally published in Ny Illustrerad Tidning in 1881. While outwardly being an idyllic Christmas poem, the poem asks about the meaning of life. A short film, Tomten, was recorded in 1941 by Gösta Roosling, where Hilda Borgström reads the ...
Nordic folklore is the folklore of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. It has common roots with, and has been under mutual influence with, folklore in England, Germany, the Low Countries, the Baltic countries, Finland and Sápmi. Folklore is a concept encompassing expressive traditions of a particular culture or group.
Jenny Eugenia Nyström (13 or 15 June 1854 in Kalmar, Sweden – 17 January 1946 in Stockholm) was a painter and illustrator mainly known as the creator of the Swedish image of the jultomte on Christmas cards and magazine covers, thus linking the Swedish version of Santa Claus to the gnomes and tomtar of Scandinavian folklore.
A Nisser is a human-like mythical creature of Scandinavian folklore. Nisser to have enough for Disposal with gnome and Leprechaun. In Old Danish fairies Story as a small gray man with a red hat as thanks for the help from an nissen peasant gifts the nissen a bowl of porridge but if the farmer forgot to give the Nisse porridge white Nissen gets ...
Category: Scandinavian legendary creatures. 5 languages. ... Creatures found in the legends and folktales of North Germanic peoples. Subcategories.
"The Tomten in Åbo Castle" (also known as The Tomte at Turku Castle; Swedish: Tomtegubben i Åbo slott, Finnish: Turun linnan tonttu-ukko) is a Finnish fairy tale from 1849 by Zachris Topelius. It tells the story of a friendship between an old tomten , who lived in Turku Castle for hundreds of years, and his only human friend.