Åsgårdsreia (The Wild Hunt)
Listen – through the night air flies A follow on foraging black horses. In the storm roams the wild horde; Just skies supporting…
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The dangerous Norwegian Christmas
The season of joy, and peace on earth. Where the warmth lights up the darkness and miracles happens left and right. A time…
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Draugen – “Rise up blessed dead, and protect me”
This story is more of an urban legend. Unlike the others that has mostly been written down as witness accounts, this one has…
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Draugen – Seaweed and fist fights
Even if Draugen is often shown as a decaying human like creature with more seaweed covering him than skin, there are also some…
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Draugen – When he screams, do not answer
For the old fishermen there was a lot of things to remember. Different signs to look for at sea the day before to…
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Draugen – Let them be buried on blessed land
Many theorize if it was widely thought it was the dead that returned as draugen, or if it was just a personification of…
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Draugen – The vengeful dead of the sea
“Do you know what sort of fellow Draugen is?
You better believe he is not all that rare.
When storms cracks, he howls before shipwrecks,
And if he a hold of you get, he won’t let go.
When waves over the gunwale hit,
draugen is now at the helm of your boat.”
Huldra – Weddings, for better or for worse
‘The milk maid at Saasetra (shieling name) left her three year old girl alone as she was milking. The girl was supposed…
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Huldra – A dangerous yearning
The girl was so beautiful that the boy was sure he had never seen anyone prettier. But he could not remember seeing her…
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Grey ghost women of Norway
All over the world there are stories of ghost ladies in grey, and even Norway has a few of them. From children telling the newspaper about an encounter during their camping trip, to a grey lady still haunting her old home.
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