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A collection of macabre and magical folklore from the "godfather" of the Norwegian troll
Across the stillness of the sprawling mountain heath, the shadow of the mighty forest falls, its wildness calling to the child in all of us. Here the Hidden Folk assemble: the stalwart little nisse, farmyard spirit and irrepressible prankster; the seductive hulder, with her crown of flowers and cow's tail; the fiddling fossegrim, summoning the music of wind and water; and most fearsome and enchanting of all, the one-eyed troll, head high above the treetops. A veritable bestiary of Nordic folk creatures was conjured by artist Theodor Kittelsen, whose late nineteenth-century paintings and illustrations gave these macabre and magical figures their enduring forms.
In this book, first published as Troldskab in 1892, Kittelsen spins tales of wonder around creatures rumored to haunt the fields, forests, and waterfalls of Norway. Striding, gamboling, and slithering across these pages are witches and gnomes and sea monsters, fiery dragons waking from their stiff-winged slumber, mermaids rising from the deep, and the sly, shapeshifting nØkk. But first and foremost are the trolls, hapless, horrible, or just plain silly, working their spells and making their mischief to the terror and delight of the presumably human reader.
Tailoring his whimsical artistic style to each tale, Kittelsen's stories, in Tiina Nunnally's nimble translation, reveal a Nordic world of wonder, myth, and magic as real as the imagination allows.
Contents
Translator's Note
Troll Magic
The Forest Troll
On the Way to a Feast at the Troll Castle
The Fossegrim
The Dragon
Supernatural Creatures I
Supernatural Creatures II
The Nisse
The Hulder
The Mermaid
The Witch
On Mount Kolsaas
A Sea Troll
The NØkk
The Draug
The Sea Serpent
The Troll Bird
A Jutul Battle
The Dying Mountain Troll
A Chronology of the Life of Theodor Kittelsen
