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. The peoples of Scandinavia are heterogenous, as are the oral genres and material culture that has been common in their lands. However, there are some commonalities across Scandinavian folkloric traditions, among them a common ground in elements from Norse mythology as well as Christian conceptions of the world.
Among the many tales common in Scandinavian oral traditions, some have become known beyond Scandinavian borders – examples include The Three Billy Goats Gruff and The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body.
Nordicfolklore is the folklore of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. It has common roots with, and has been under mutual influence...
and into the Nordicfolklore of the modern period. The northernmost extension of Germanic mythology and stemming from Proto-Germanic folklore, Norse mythology...
Belgium, and Italy. It shares many characteristics with Nordicfolklore and English folklore due to their origins in a common Germanic mythology. It reflects...
In religion, a nature deity is a deity in charge of forces of nature, such as a water deity, vegetation deity, sky deity, solar deity, fire deity, or any...
Scandinavian pre-history Nordic folkloreNordic mythology Nordic paganism Nordic race, a race group Nordic theory or Nordicism, the belief that Northern Europeans...
The church grim is a guardian spirit in English and Nordicfolklore that oversees the welfare of a particular Christian church, and protects the churchyard...
A troll is a being in Nordicfolklore, including Norse mythology. In Old Norse sources, beings described as trolls dwell in isolated areas of rocks, mountains...
Reginnaglar ', in News from Other Worlds/Tíðendi ór ǫðrum heimum: Studies in NordicFolklore, Mythology and Culture in Honor of John F. Lindow, ed. by Merrill Kaplan...
folktales. Its cultural history is rooted in Celtic, Christian, Nordic and Germanic folklore. During the Renaissance in the 16th century, England looked to...
(disambiguation) Vett (disambiguation) Vættir or vetter, creatures in Nordicfolklore This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Vette...
Mistletoe', in News from Other Worlds/Tíðendi ór ǫðrum heimum: Studies in NordicFolklore, Mythology and Culture in Honor of John F. Lindow, ed. by Merrill Kaplan...
countries and the stories in which they appear. In Nordicfolklore, specifically Swedish folklore, lindworms traditionally appear as giant forest serpents...
mythology Toell the Great - Estonian mythology Trolls - Nordicfolklore Uriaș - Romanian folklore Ysbaddaden - Welsh mythology A Book of Giants Ruth Manning-Sanders...
Nordiska Väsen, was published in 2013, and describes creatures from Nordicfolklore. He has subsequently released other books, including Nordiska gudar...
of Poland, Hungary, and Moravia." Revenants appear in Nordic literature, mythology, and folklore, variously called aptrgangr (pl. aptrgǫngur, "again-walker(s)")...
small rice pot found by "pot hunters" as evidence of that practice. In Nordicfolklore, the ättestupa is a cliff where elderly people were said to leap, or...
Aldebaran represent hunters, dogs and a wounded bear respectively. Nordicfolklore and literature have also featured polar bears. In The Tale of Auðun...
"thunderbolt" (thunder wedge), stemming from the thunderstones of Nordicfolklore, called "åskviggar", said to come from the lightning strikes of Norse...
Reginnaglar ', in News from Other Worlds/Tíðendi ór ǫðrum heimum: Studies in NordicFolklore, Mythology and Culture in Honor of John F. Lindow, ed. by Merrill Kaplan...
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