Scandinavian Folk Belief and Legend

Here is a rich compendium of hundreds of legends, stories, beliefs, and magic collected from oral sources in preindustrial Scandinavia. In this rural society, the people lived close to nature and believed themselves an integral part of it. This volume focuses on beliefs that illustrate the central aspects of a traditional worldview, rather than on prose narratives considered for their literary value.

• Author
• Reimund Kvideland, Henning Sehmsdorf

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 456

• Publisher
• Univ Of Minnesota Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780816619672

• Genres
• folklore, religion, mythology, history

• Release date
• 1991