Largely due to recent Hollywood movies, constantly increasing interest is seen in Scandinavian folklore. Today let’s take a look at 10 famous Scandinavian folklore tales of good versus evil and sinister creatures disguised as beautiful mortals.
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Eén van de mooiste blogs over Scandinavische Folklore is dat van Laila Durán, eigenaresse van het Zweedse bedrijf Duran Textiles. Haar blo...
The Scandinavian Folklore consists of a huge variety of creatures, good or evil, which have frightened people for centuries. They were often meant to scare children, but even today they are essential and important to the modern northern society. In the 1890's, something changed in the way common Scandinavians saw themselves and their culture. They looked back in time to rediscover their old myths and legends; folklore which had been forgotten because of the coming of Christianity. It was a time when people feared nature, because we were becoming more industrialized. The forests, the mountains, and the sea; it all seemed strange, dark and magic, and because of that, we are now left with evil spirits and monsters who used to represent our own way of seeing nature.
We thought it might be fun to intersperse some of our more technical blog-posts with a closer look at some of our inspirations and references for Röki. There's far too much for one blog so we'll be breaking them down into a series of blog-posts over the next few months. As we've mentioned previousl
The secrets of Scandinavian trolls! Explore their magic, disguises, helpfulness, and mischievous ways in this journey through folklore.
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Gnomes are dwarves from Western European, primarily German-Scandinavian folklore, frequent heroes of fairy tales and legends, characters of the lower mythology of the peoples of Europe. According to legends, they live underground, wear beards and are famous for their wealth and skill.
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Jag blev alldeles lycklig när jag häromdagen hittade till bloggen Folklore Fashion, som dokumenterar arbetet med den kommande boken Scandinavian Folklore. Bakom detta gigantiska och ambitiösa arbete ligger Laila Durán, som är fotograf. Och ägare av Durán textiles, om någon känner igen hennes namn. Boken blir Duran Textiles första och den kommer ut i april […]
The loose pocket is an important item of folk dress over much of Europe, and is especially decorative in Scandinavia. I found a number of...
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Illustration for "Children of the Northlights", 1957, written and illustrated by Ingri Mortenson Parin D'Auliar and and Edgar Parin D'Auliar. This book was inspired directly by a journey the d’Aulaires took to northern Europe, and their time spent among the Sami people. "Children of the Northlights" is a brightly illustrated celebration of the Sami people, and the snow-covered landscapes of the frozen north.
Christmas does have a tendency to take over one´s life. But today we´ve packed away all the decorations and hoovered the last of the pine needles. Needle felted family made by my daugher Elise. I didn´t knit many Christmas presents,...
Welsh Legends and Myths: 80 Myths and Legends from across Wales eBook : Watkins, Graham: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
