av fortellerkunstner | jan 21, 2016 | In English
Juhuu, another “#FolkloreThursday and here is a new character from the Norwegian folklore. The word “deildegast” name comes from the German word “geist” meaning spirit and “deild” is a name for boundary/border stone. And this touch the theme....
av fortellerkunstner | des 17, 2015 | In English
Today is the Christmas goat for some maybe one of those dusty straw things you can put on the Christmas tree (see here), for others a masquerade you do the time between Christmas eve and New years’ eve. This cheeky character was out on Christmas Eve, after it was dark...
av fortellerkunstner | jun 4, 2015 | In English
Sometimes reading footnotes in Norwegian folktales books is like finding treasures. The footnotes usually refers to other variantions or other stories collected. These stories, could maybe hardly be called stories, as there are only fragments or skeletons of stories....