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Norway

2 entries in 2 subareas: 2 at grade A. The points fall where the entry was collected, not where the story is set. Hover a point to see the subarea, click it to open the entry.

Areas of seter, that is summer mountain pasture, and of charcoal burning: Telemark, Hallingdal, Gudbrandsdalen, Trøndelag

AHuldraNorway — Areas of seter, that is summer mountain pasture, and of charcoal burning: Telemark, Hallingdal, Gudbrandsdalen, Trøndelag

Inland Norway and Sweden: waterfalls, mills, mill-races and lakes; Telemark and Setesdal, home of the hardingfele

ANøkk e fossegrimNorway — Inland Norway and Sweden: waterfalls, mills, mill-races and lakes; Telemark and Setesdal, home of the hardingfele

The entries, in brief

The folklore of Norway documented in this atlas: Huldra and Nøkk e fossegrim. Every entry is placed on the map at the point where it was collected or attested — not where the story is set — and carries its declared grade of documentation (2 at grade A), with the sources it comes from. The 2 subareas are not an administrative division: folklore lives in cultural areas, which rarely coincide with state borders.

Huldra A
A woman of extraordinary beauty who appears to the herdsman, the charcoal burner, the hunter and the woodcutter, that is to men alone for weeks in the forest. The revealing trait is hidden under her long dress: a cow's tail, in…

Nøkk e fossegrim A
He has a double nature. As a drowner he is a water spirit who draws children, washerwomen and travellers into the whirlpool, sometimes in the form of a white or grey horse, the bäckahästen, which stretches so as to carry off…

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