Nordic Tales: Folktales from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark: 5

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The mythos introduces Jörmungandr as one of the three monstrous progenies sired by Loki and the giantess Angrboða. It can be found in the anthology "Straight Outta Tombstone", and has been included in the anthology "Brief Cases". Signekjærrings Fortrællinger", 1: 50, beginning: " Det var en sommer for lang, lang tid sia, de låg til seters med krøttera fra Melbustad oppe på Halland. Travel between the worlds is frequently recounted in the myths, where the gods and other beings may interact directly with humanity.

Thus, it is likely that the figure of the brook horse preceded the personification of the nix as the "man in the rapids". The girl hit the brook horse with the bridle and cried: "Disappear you scoundrel, or you'll have to plough so you'll never forget it.

Since the pre-Christian Norse never wrote down their myths – theirs was an almost exclusively oral culture – the primary sources upon which our current knowledge of Norse mythology rests were all written while the Norse were converting to Christianity, or generations thereafter. He could show himself as a man playing the violin in brooks and waterfalls (though often imagined as fair and naked today, in folklore, he was more frequently described as wearing more or less elegant clothing) but also could appear to be treasure or various floating objects, or as an animal—most commonly in the form of a "brook horse" (see below). This war is an important chapter in the mythology, underlining the friction and subsequent reconciliation between the two divine factions. In The Nixie's Song, the first book in the children's series Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, the main characters rescue a Nixie named Taloa after fire-breathing giants destroy her pond.

These are the tales that Viking poets recited in dimly lit halls to the captivated attendees of grand feasts, and which fathers and mothers told to their children around roaring hearth-fires on long winter nights. The related English knucker was generally depicted as a worm or dragon, although more recent versions depict the spirits in other forms. The Rhine maidens Wellgunde, Woglinde, and Floßhilde ( Flosshilde) belong to a group of characters living in a part of nature free from human influence. The first fully illustrated edition of the book was the 1879 edition of Asbjørnsen's Norske folke- og huldre-eventyr, which featured the artworks of several artists: Peter Nicolai Arbo (1831−1892), Hans Gude (1825−1903), Vincent Stoltenberg Lerche [ no], Eilif Peterssen (1852−1928), August Schneider (1842−1873), Otto Sinding (1842−1909), Adolph Tidemand (1814−1876), and Erik Werenskiold (1855−1938). According to the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda poem, Völuspá, the first human couple consisted of Ask and Embla; driftwood found by a trio of gods and imbued with life in the form of three gifts.The Prose Edda features layers of euhemerization, a process in which deities and supernatural beings are presented as having been either actual, magic-wielding human beings who have been deified in time or beings demonized by way of Christian mythology. The Death of Baldur– Baldur, one of the most cherished gods, dies an improbable death through the wickedness of Loki. Odin wanted to drink from the well of wisdom so that he could become wiser, and gain knowledge of the future. It is said that the nykur can equally well change itself into the form of all quadrupedal animals, except that he does not know how to create the horn-points of a ram or a male lamb on himself.