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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 ...
Pages in category "Swedish folklore" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Agnete og Havmanden;
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.
A hulder (or huldra) is a seductive forest creature found in Scandinavian folklore.Her name derives from a root meaning "covered" or "secret". [1] In Norwegian folklore, she is known as huldra ("the [archetypal] hulder", though folklore presupposes that there is an entire Hulder race and not just a single individual).
In the 19th-century tale of "Prince Lindworm" (also "King Lindworm") [19] from Scandinavian folklore, a "half-man half-snake" lindworm is born, as one of twins, to a queen, who, in an effort to overcome her childlessness, followed the advice of an old crone who instructed her to eat two onions. As she did not peel the first onion, the first ...
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]
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 ...