#Scandinavian folklore

[thehmn]

All of them are acting like you’d expect them to according to Scandinavian folklore: The gullible troll, the flirty huldrakarl, the suspicious gnome, the untrustworthy mermaid, and the creepy åmand (stream man or man of the stream)

Additional info: Trolls in Scandinavian folklore aren’t big dumb monsters but more like strong, less bright people of the woods/mountains. Huldrakarl is the less famous male version of the huldra. Gnomes are house spirits who help and protect the family they live with and are often the first to notice if something is off. Scandinavian mermaids are specifically said to have huge breasts which they use to lure sailors to their deaths. Though they’re often confused for each other Åmand is different from Näcken because more often than not he’s only heard but never seen, and will usually loudly announce that he plans to take a life days or even weeks before someone drowns in his waters.

And I just realized there are a lot of creatures with weird tails in Scandinavian folklore…

#troll #huldra #huldrakarl #mermaid #gnome #Neisse #åmand #folklore #scandinavian folklore #Denmark #Sweden #Norway #art

[weirdundead]

Naglfar, the harbinger of Ragnarök

#naglfar #scandinavian folklore #scandinavian mythology #ragnarok

[alkiores]

Völva for the Scandinavian-themed artbook ✨🔥 ✨

#when the main character of the drawing is a decorative frame #digital art #illustration #digital arwork #mythology #völva #seeress #scandinavian folklore #artists on tumblr #my art

[beatricenius]

A small collection of drawings that aren't really connected, but feel like they could be

My Patreon

#folk horror #scandinavian folklore #cat art #huldra #baba yaga #witchblr #beatricenius art

[celestialkiri]

I earned my bachelor's degree in troll representation in folklore and fairytales in Northern countries a year ago, but it's in Finnish 😩 So because some of my friends asked me to translate SOMETHING with my not-so-great English, I made this little collab that I also used on one of my school projects where I was tasked to illustrate some trolls. I hope you enjoy my rambling about trolls ✨

#my art #trolls #folklore #troll folklore #Northern trolls #fairytale #scandinavian folklore #idk how to add better hashtags :'D

[hapalopus]

Hooooowww did people 1) hear the folksong Valravnen about a knight who's been transformed into a bird (likely an eagle, not a raven) and can only break the curse by killing a baby, 2) see that one (1) now-extinct noble family referred to their heraldic beast, a wolf/bird, as a 'valravn', and 3) read one single 1800s countryboy's explanation that valravnen is like an evil valkyrie, and SOMEHOW extrapolate from those three wildly unrelated sources that "The Valravn" (because it's never a folkloric concept with different interpretations, it's always a single specific creature) is a were-wolf/raven who haunts battlefields to drink the blood of slain warriors????

Please stop depicting 'the' valravn when you don't even know what it is, I'm begging on my fucking knees, I hate the way recent Danish folklore-inspired popculture has latched onto this figure and keeps depicting it in wilder and wilder ways😭😭

If you want a folkloric evil bird creature in your story please just use a fucking dragon or gammen. Use a damn cockatrice or vættehane, idgaf. Please just stop muddying the already-confusing lore of valravnen. The figure has been abused enough already and you are making my hobby as a folklorist very difficult😥

#folklore #danish folklore #norse folklore #nordic folklore #valravn #valravnen #scandinavian folklore

[tsrmarina]

Thor and Loki with Huginn and Muninn

#thor #loki #thorloki #huginn #muninn #marvel #northmythology #scandinavian folklore #chris hemsworth #tom hiddelston loki

[lokiravenwood]

In the process of creating a physical manifestation of my 2023 Yule Tomte

He is coming along very nicely, just need to Finnish some painting, but until he is finished, here is an idea of what he will look like, as provided by a fun little AI that my wife found.

He has not yet reveled his name to me yet, but I do hope he gets along with the other Tomte that are already living here

#pagan #norse mythology #norse gods #nordic folklore #nordic #tomte #nisse #gnome #scandinavian folklore #holly #antlers #viking #merry yule #yuletide #yule #ai art #ai image #norwegian #swedish #norway #sweden #iceland #greenland #folklore #seidr

[trollmaiden]

All the books in Bramble the mountain King

The children’s story

The Nacken’s origin

The book of witchcraft

King Nils volume I

The Skogsra’s story

The Plague Diary

And King Nils volume II

#fairytales #trollcore #bramble the mountain king #nacken #nøkken #King Nils #skogsrå #nordic folklore #scandinavian folklore #scandinavian troll #video games

[avillanappears]

troll stories are so funny. a troll will give a guy an ale cask that never runs out and tell him to NEVER look in it and you're all "ah I've read stories about fairies, I know how this plays out. they're going to look in and then the troll gets them for breaking the promise" but no, the troll just doesn't want you looking in because he stuffed it full of toads and looking at the toads makes them stop producing ale.

#trolls (from mythology) #vaettir #avillanaccounts #mythology #trolls #scandinavian folklore #norse mythology #sorry guy. it's toads forever now #avillanadmiredaccounts

[alkiores]

#some fragments of my drawings for a couple of artbooks #digital art #illustration #artists on tumblr #my art #lady of the lake #arthurian mythology #seeress #völva #scandinavian folklore #mythology

[elegieenbleu]

JOHN BAUER /

"Look at them," troll mother said. "Look at my sons! You won't find more beautiful trolls on this side of the moon." 1915

#john bauer #scandinavian folklore #swedish folk #elegieenbleu #élégie en bleu

[useless-denmarkfacts]

Art credit: Johan Egerkrans

#nonask #denmark #admiralen #the line came from mod tycho though so #thank him for this one #scandinavian folklore #nókk #nøkke #nokk #meme #tinder joke #johan egerkrans #vaesen #at least i think its from there #but not the edition i have so idk #its definitely egerkrans though

[hapalopus]

I have a new favorite genre of troll tale. Translations are in the alt text. There's about a dozen more of these in book 1 of Evald Tang Kristensen's "Danske Sagn" :D

#danish folklore #folklore #scandinavian folklore

[enchantedbook]

Art by Swedish painter and illustrator John Bauer

#john bauer #illustration #art #scandinavian folklore

[husvetten]

''Hr. Jakop'' is a Norwegian folktale in the Wittenberg genre.

The Wittenberg school is a decently popular topic in folktales, as it was thought that the priests going to study there were under the tutelage of the devil. That the priests there would receive an education and the ''black book'' (in folklore, a book of spells that can't be burned, thought to be written by the devil) in exchange for 1 student of the graduating class were to give up their soul.

Which, I must admit, think is funny. In a ''so it's fine when YOU DO IT'' kind of way.

Tricking the devil to take their shadows instead of the soul is a pretty popular result as a way to showcase the priests wits. Not that it's much of a feat.

Fanden Tyken, The devil's stand in\actor, is my OC. (They\Them)

Original folktale under the cut.

My translation:

Mr. Jakop of all those weird priests who's been in Hjørunfjord, there's no one, who has as many stories told about them as Mr. Jakop. How long it is he has lived no one knows, but a wise and educated man this must be; yes he was one of those, who had been at the black school in Mecklenburg in Germany, and already then he stood out.

At that school was it like this, that the devil themself, naturally was the teacher who were to have one of the students in exchange for the education and board, should cast lots about who it should be. This time it fell on Mr. Jakop, and thus there was nothing to do, and he had to give himself to the Devil, and in a dark black room he was seated until the devil came to get him. -As it is with all great authorities, it was the devil who decided the most, and thus it went. Now good advice was expensive, he thought, and much he had learned that later would come to help. But could he be bold enough to skimp the devil, he would do something never done before nor after.

He grabbed 4 table knives and placed one in each corner of the room, and told them to answer each their turns, when the devil came to get him. And so he went up the pipe. It wasn't long after he had begun climbing that the devil came and yelled: ''Where are you?''

''Here I am!'' answered one of the knives in the corner, and the devil didn't find Mr. Jakop. So they yelled again: ''Here I am'', shouted the other corner, and the devil looked and found nothing. When they had yelled and looked through the entire room, they knew no calm, and would go up the pipe.

Mr. Jakop had gotten so high up that he had his grip at the very the top of the pipe, and was just about to swing himself up, but with that the devil grabbed hold of his foot and tried to drag him down again.

''DON'T TAKE ME, TAKE HE WHO COMES AFTER ME'', said Mr. Jakop. At once when the devil saw his shadow, they let him go and were to grab after it. Meanwhile Mr. Jakop whipped himself with both hands onto his feet, and there he stood free and blessed.

From that day on, he no longer had a shadow.

#folktale #folklore #scandinavian folklore #scandinavian folktale #scandinavian #fanden tyken #comic #long post #norwegian #norwegian folktale #norwegian folklore