...ma''' is a sea serpent said to live in the lake Seljordsvatnet in Seljord, Norway.
The serpent in Norway's Seljord lake has fueled local folklore for centuries, not unlike Scotland
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...ng through the air, usually at Christmastide. The name for this host is in Norway called .
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...(singular: vätte), '''vittra''' in northern Sweden and '''huldrefolk''' in Norway. The Norwegian '''vetter''' is used much in the same way as the Old Norse v
*''Folktales of Norway'', ed. Reidar Th. Christiansen, 1964.
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...s in the ground. They possess treasures as great as those of the gnomes of Norway or Germany, and these they will sometimes bestow on lucky mortals, who are
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...e Belon's ''De Aquatilibus'' in 1553. It shows the "sea monk" captured in Norway, a creature in scaly but clerical garb with a human face, a monk's shaven c
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heard in Iceland, and Russia, and Norway, for many days after.
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...are most commonly associated with the cult of [[Odin]] from ninth century Norway onward.
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...he has a cow's tail, and in Sweden she may have that of a cow or a fox. In Norway she has often been described as a typical dairymaid, wearing the clothes of
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The mummies disappeared from the public view. They appeared in Norway in 1921 when a Mr. Lund bought them for his Norwegian ‘chamber of horrors
...fin at the Department of Anatomy, Oslo University since 1997. In 1994, the Norway Senate recommended burying her but the Minister of Sciences decided to keep
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...ulenisse" in Norway, started bringing the Christmas presents in Sweden and Norway, instead of the traditional ''julbock'' Yule Goat.
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...are most commonly associated with the cult of [[Odin]] from ninth century Norway onward.
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In Norway and Denmark, lindorm commonly refers to a sea serpent, while in modern Dutc
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...appear frequently in later Scandinavian folklore, particularly in that of Norway.
...sea serpent from Bishop Erik Pontoppidan's 1755 work ''Natural History of Norway''.]]
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...fresh from the graveyards, and the term draug is even used of Vampires, in Norway translated as "Bloodsucker-draugar". In this sense, the draug is an undead.
...man, dressed in oilskins. This trait is common in the northernmost part of Norway, where life and culture was based on the fish, more than anywhere else.
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...Konungs skuggsjá (''Speculum Regale'' or "the King's Mirror"), written in Norway around 1250:
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...Created hugest that swim th' ocean-stream.<br>Him, haply slumbering on the Norway foam,<br>The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff,<br>Deeming some isl
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...the Black and bore to him Harald Fairhair, the first historic king of all Norway.
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*Norway - "Busemannen"
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...legends (see below), but it is also the prominent concept of ''troll'' in Norway.
As a rule of thumb, what would be called a "troll" in Norway would in Denmark and Sweden be a "giant" (''jætte'' or ''jätte'', derived
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...appear in countries such as Germany (such as '''The Three Spinners''') and Norway ('''The Three Aunts''').
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