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
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... Then again, I have been rather blunted by these things by now, I suspect.
"And then she broke his fingers off!" "I ATE MY UNBORN BROTHER'S FOETUS!" "HE RODE FOR THREE DAYS AND NIGHTS WITH THE MAIDEN BOUND TO HIS SADDLE BY HER HAIR!!1"
It's just... The people of the past. They liked gory tales.
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the split head dangling down on the shoulder.
...yuck!
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Haha, I guess it shows that people really don't change. Although personally I feel that the old stories are more tasteful than the splatter movies that are produced nowadays...
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I quite like those translations. Thanks for sharing them <3
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Thank you! I try my best. I like these stories and there are more to come, I'll probably have to make a collective post on all the translations in time...
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Yay, I am definitely interested in reading more. I've actually been reading some Norwegian folk/fairy tales recently and I rather enjoy those so these are a treat!
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Until then you can check the "folktales" tag at my sidebar, I should have... Three more stories and other folklore-related schtuff there, mostly Swedish. But yeah, if you like Norwegian folktales you should enjoy Swedish ones, they're pretty much the same. xD NORWAY YOU ARE NOT A SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE WHATEVER YOUR NATIONALISTIC INHABITANTS WANT TO BELIEVE.
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The second one was really sad, and the first I found fascinating.
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I picked stories I personally like and thought that other people would too. :3 I forgot to mention, that MArgareta Barnekow was indeed a real person, but whether she ever encountered any ghosts I do not know...
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I'm afraid I didn't really find them excessively gory - they just seemed like the sort of thing that would be found in folktales. And I MUCH agree with you about the censorship of fairy-tales. It's not so much for the kids, though, since little children have a strong sense of right and wrong and they very much want the bad guys to be punished right properly.
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Interesting story though. Now, I can't say anything since I don't know the details of it, but I find it intriguing how it's implied that such a carnal activity as intercourse helps to bring back the dead, who are traditionally associated with a separate, incorporeal world ('Course, for all I know it could be "the power of love" as well, but... That is not as interesting. :D).
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http://web.uvic.ca/geru/487/corinth.html
In that version the dead girl is not just a ghost but a Lamia (vampire), a curse in Greek folklore put on any girl who dies childless. Why did she die childless, in fact a virgin? Her mother was an early convert to Christianity and forced her daughter to become a nun.
Sorry to go on like this, but it is one of my favorite ghost stories.
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No, no problem! I love ghost stories, so recommendations are always welcome. In fact, I've wished for a book with ghost stories from the same area as the one I translated here for Christmas, so I hope to be able to contribute more in the future... :D
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