Scandinavian Folk Belief and Legend

Reimund Kvideland, Henning K. Sehmsdorf

U of Minnesota Press

Contents

• III: 43
• VI: 44
• X: 45
• XII: 46
• XVI: 47
• XVIII: 48
• XX: 49
• XXII: 50
• XXIV: 51
• XXVI: 52
• XXX: 53
• XXXII: 54
• XXXIII: 55
• XXXV: 56
• XXXVI: 57
• XXXVIII: 58
• XL: 59
• XLII: 60
• XLV: 61
• XLVII: 62
• XLVIII: 63
• L: 64
• LII: 65
• LIV: 66
• LVI: 67
• LVIII: 68
• LX: 69
• LXIII: 70
• LXV: 71
• LXVIII: 72
• LXIX: 73
• LXXI: 74
• LXXII: 75
• LXXIV: 76
• LXXVI: 77
• LXXVII: 78
• LXXIX: 79
• LXXXI: 80
• LXXXV: 81
• LXXXVI: 87
• LXXXIX: 88
• XC: 89
• XCII: 90
• XCIII: 91
• XCV: 92
• XCVI: 93
• XCVII: 94
• XCIX: 95
• CI: 96
• CIII: 97
• CIV: 98
• CV: 99
• CVII: 100
• CIX: 101
• CXI: 102
• CXIII: 103
• CXIV: 104
• CXVII: 105
• CXVIII: 106
• CXX: 107
• CXXII: 108
• CXXIV: 109
• CXXVI: 110
• CXXVII: 111
• CXXX: 112
• CXXXII: 113
• CXXXIV: 114
• CXXXV: 115
• CXXXVII: 116
• CXXXVIII: 117
• CXXXIX: 118
• CXLII: 119
• CXLIII: 120
• CXLVI: 121
• CXLVIII: 122
• CLII: 123
• CLIII: 124
• CLV: 125
• CLVI: 131
• CLVIII: 132
• CLIX: 133
• CLX: 134
• CLXI: 135
• CLXIII: 136
• CLXV: 137
• CLXVI: 138
• CLXVIII: 139
• CLXIX: 140
• CLXXI: 141
• CLXXIII: 142
• CLXXV: 143
• CLXXVI: 144
• CLXXIX: 145
• CLXXXI: 146
• CLXXXIII: 147
• CLXXXV: 148
• CLXXXVII: 149
• CLXXXIX: 150
• CXCI: 151
• CXCIII: 152
• CXCV: 153
• CXCVII: 154
• CXCVIII: 161
• CC: 162
• CCI: 163
• CCIII: 164
• CCV: 165
• CCVI: 168
• CCVIII: 169
• CCIX: 170
• CCXI: 171
• CCXIV: 172
• CCXV: 173
• CCXVII: 174
• CCXVIII: 175
• CCXX: 176
• CCXXII: 177
• CCXXIII: 178
• CCXXIV: 179
• CCXXV: 180
• CCXXVII: 181
• CCXXVIII: 183
• CCXXX: 184
• CCXXXI: 185
• CCXXXII: 187
• CCXXXIV: 188
• CCXXXV: 189
• CCXXXVI: 190
• CCXXXVII: 191
• CCXXXVIII: 193
• CCXXXIX: 195
• CCXL: 196
• CCXLI: 198
• CCXLII: 199
• CCXLIII: 205
• CCXLV: 206
• CCXLVII: 207
• CCXLVIII: 208
• CCL: 209
• CCLII: 211
• CCLIII: 212
• CCLV: 213
• CCLVI: 214
• CCLVIII: 215
• CCLX: 216
• CCLXI: 217
• CCLXIII: 218
• CCLXIV: 219
• CCLXV: 220
• CCLXVII: 221
• CCLXVIII: 222
• CCLXIX: 223
• CCLXX: 224
• CCLXXII: 225
• CCLXXIII: 226
• CCLXXIV: 227
• CCLXXV: 228
• CCLXXVII: 229
• CCLXXVIII: 230
• CCLXXX: 231
• CCLXXXI: 232
• CCLXXXII: 233
• CCLXXXIII: 234
• CCLXXXV: 235
• CCLXXXVII: 236
• CCLXXXVIII: 237
• CCLXXXIX: 238
• CCXC: 239
• CCXCII: 240
• CCXCIII: 241
• CCXCIV: 242
• CCXCVI: 243
• CCXCVII: 244
• CCXCIX: 245
• CCC: 246
• CCCII: 247
• CCCIII: 248
• CCCVI: 249
• CCCVIII: 250
• CCCX: 251
• CCCXII: 252
• CCCXIV: 253
• CCCXV: 254
• CCCXVIII: 255
• CCCXIX: 256
• CCCXX: 257
• CCCXXII: 258
• CCCXXIV: 259
• CCCXXVI: 260
• CCCXXVIII: 261
• CCCXXX: 262
• CCCXXXII: 263
• CCCXXXIII: 264
• CCCXXXIV: 266
• CCCXXXV: 267
• CCCXXXVI: 268
• CCCXXXVIII: 269
• CCCXL: 270
• CCCXLI: 271
• CCCXLII: 272
• CCCXLIV: 273
• CCCXLVI: 274
• CCCXLVIII: 281
• CCCXLIX: 282
• CCCLI: 283
• CCCLII: 284
• CCCLIII: 285
• CCCLIV: 286
• CCCLVI: 288
• CCCLVIII: 290
• CCCLIX: 292
• CCCLX: 293
• CCCLXI: 294
• CCCLXIII: 295
• CCCLXV: 301
• CCCLXVI: 302
• CCCLXVIII: 303
• CCCLXX: 304
• CCCLXXII: 305
• CCCLXXIII: 306
• CCCLXXV: 307
• CCCLXXVI: 308
• CCCLXXVII: 310
• CCCLXXIX: 311
• CCCLXXXI: 312
• CCCLXXXIII: 313
• CCCLXXXIV: 319
• CCCLXXXVI: 320
• CCCLXXXVII: 321
• CCCLXXXIX: 322
• CCCXCI: 323
• CCCXCII: 324
• CCCXCIV: 325
• CCCXCV: 331
• CCCXCVII: 332
• CCCXCIX: 333
• CD: 334
• CDII: 335
• CDIV: 336
• CDV: 337
• CDVII: 338
• CDIX: 339
• CDXI: 340
• CDXIII: 341
• CDXIV: 342
• CDXVI: 344
• CDXVIII: 345
• CDXX: 346
• CDXXII: 347
• CDXXIII: 348
• CDXXV: 349
• CDXXVII: 350
• CDXXIX: 351
• CDXXXII: 352
• CDXXXIV: 353
• CDXXXVI: 354
• CDXXXVII: 355
• CDXL: 356
• CDXLII: 357
• CDXLIV: 358
• CDXLV: 359
• CDXLVII: 360
• CDXLIX: 361
• CDLI: 362
• CDLIII: 363
• CDLV: 364
• CDLVII: 365
• CDLVIII: 366
• CDLX: 367
• CDLXII: 368
• CDLXIII: 369
• CDLXV: 370
• CDLXVIII: 372
• CDLXX: 373
• CDLXXII: 374
• CDLXXIII: 379
• CDLXXV: 380
• CDLXXVII: 381
• CDLXXIX: 382
• CDLXXXI: 383
• CDLXXXIII: 384
• CDLXXXIV: 385
• CDLXXXV: 386
• CDLXXXVII: 387
• CDLXXXIX: 388
• CDXCI: 389
• CDXCIV: 390
• CDXCV: 391
• CDXCVII: 395
• CDXCVIII: 419

Popular passages

Page 18 - Fairy-tale (marchen) is with good reason distinguished from the Legend, though by turns they play into one another. Looser, less fettered than legend, the Fairy-tale lacks that local habitation, which hampers legend, but makes it the more homelike.

Page 18 - ... point out: Legends and folk beliefs were shared by everyone and were told and talked about under many different circumstances as an integral part of everyday life. This meant that stories were usually referred to or told only in an abbreviated form — everybody knew what they were all about. ... It is often said that the legend has a firm, stereotyped form, but in fact the complete form is transmitted only in certain situations, for example, when the legend is told to someone who is not familiar...

Page 54 - Old Hag': The Nightmare Tradition Reexamined.

Page 52 - ... Lapland illustrates the same response, although in this instance what is coveted by the visitor is not food or shelter, but a newborn calf (Campbell 1933:140): Old Stina was a dangerous woman. She came to my grandmother's cow barn to help her with one of the cows that was having a calf. Stina really wanted that calf; but she did not get it. A few weeks later the calf died, and the cow died soon after. My grandmother was sure that Stina had killed them both with her envy. Both of these memorats...

Page 14 - ... four, or more. Since the narratives are retold by internal folk narrators, fragments also appear occasionally, much as in real storytelling situations, in which members of an audience may already be familiar with a story and only require hearing certain parts. As Kvideland and Sehmsdorf point out: Legends and folk beliefs were shared by everyone and were told and talked about under many different circumstances as an integral part of everyday life. This meant that stories were usually referred...

Page 52 - ... she fixed things for us! The very same day we lost a goat. It fell over in the field and was dead instantly. A memorat collected in Swedish Lapland illustrates the same response, although in this instance what is coveted by the visitor is not food or shelter, but a newborn calf (Campbell 1933:140): Old Stina was a dangerous woman. She came to my grandmother's cow barn to help her with one of the cows that was having a calf. Stina really wanted that calf; but she did not get it. A few weeks later...

Page 23 - One of the consequences of the ciftlik regime, slowly established in one area after another between the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century...

Bibliographic information

• Title: Scandinavian Folk Belief and Legend
• Authors: Reimund Kvideland, Henning K. Sehmsdorf
• Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
• ISBN: 1452901600, 9781452901602