Today was boring.

Have some Swedish legends.

( Dalsland )

Girlfriend wanted to hear this story; I thought I could just as well make a complete post about it here ( Read more... )

I haven't really had anything better to do that translate some tales. It's not really very productive but at least it doesn't make me feel completely useless.

I'm still working my way north from the southernmost parts of Sweden. Some day I'll probably make a post collecting all the sägner, but so far it's just something I do when I feel like it. ( Read more... )

Found this interesting little record of south-Swedish folklore in the ethnological study on Näcken and thought I'd share it with you. It was recorded in Skåne in 1881, and is relating to how women who haven't yet been to church after childbirth are extra vulnerable to the menacing watersprite:

"Some wives are, when they have yet to be taken to ( Read more... )

Look, I found an awesome online edition of Hávamál in Swedish, Icelandic and English. This is why I love Google.

First day of Christmas break = awesome. I promised myself to do nothing today, and I haven't. Just lazed around, taken a long hot bath, watched television and eaten pizza. And sat in front of the computer, translating some more sägner ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm a bit better now.

You know, I was planning on making this... Huge epic post with Swedish myths and legends; one from each province. But then I got so impatient that I decided to post the two I've translated so far. >3>;

In Swedish there is a word called sägen, which roughly translates to myth or legend, although I personally feel that ( Read more... )

http://mumblingidiot.deviantart.com/art/Hidden-Iceland-Interactive-125372001Read more... )

(A post for the community told_tales

Went to the library a while back and found a book with folktales from different parts of Europe and Asia. Naturally, I picked it up to see if it was anything interesting, but in the end, what made me borrow it was not the stories but the illustrations.

Hans Arnold was born in Switzerland in 1925, studied art in Luzern ( Read more... )

Aah. It rained today. Happy times. <3 And mum doesn't work tomorrow, so we'll probably do something together, the entire family, and get some business done ( Read more... )

Guy, guys. I was bored. And I've been meaning to look into this for... A long time. Out of morbid curiousity ( Read more... )