• Nordic folklore is the folklore of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. It has common roots with, and has been under mutual influence...
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    and into the Nordic folklore of the modern period. The northernmost extension of Germanic mythology and stemming from Proto-Germanic folklore, Norse mythology...
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    tomtenisse, or tonttu (Finnish: [ˈtontːu]) is a mythological creature from Nordic folklore today typically associated with the winter solstice and the Christmas...
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    Belgium, and Italy. It shares many characteristics with Nordic folklore and English folklore due to their origins in a common Germanic mythology. It reflects...
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    In religion, a nature deity is a deity in charge of forces of nature, such as a water deity, vegetation deity, sky deity, solar deity, fire deity, or any...
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  • Scandinavian pre-history Nordic folklore Nordic mythology Nordic paganism Nordic race, a race group Nordic theory or Nordicism, the belief that Northern Europeans...
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    Troll (category Scandinavian folklore)
    A troll is a being in Nordic folklore, including Norse mythology. In Old Norse sources, beings described as trolls dwell in isolated areas of rocks, mountains...
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    Church grim (category English folklore)
    The church grim is a guardian spirit in English and Nordic folklore that oversees the welfare of a particular Christian church, and protects the churchyard...
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  • released on 30 May 2008 through Napalm Records. The album is based on Nordic folklore. The final track is a new version of the song "Hail to the Hammer"...
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  • Myling (category Scandinavian folklore)
    Elizabeth; Sehmsdorf, Henning K.; Kvideland, Reimund (eds.). Nordic folklore: recent studies. Folklore studies in translation, 99-0588351-7. Bloomington, Ind...
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    Baltoscandia Fennoscandia Kvenland Sápmi Nordic countries Nordic cross flag Nordic Council Nordic folklore Scandinavian colonialism Scandinavian family...
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    folktales. Its cultural history is rooted in Celtic, Christian, Nordic and Germanic folklore. During the Renaissance in the 16th century, England looked to...
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    Ármann (2005). "The Hole: Problems in Medieval Dwarfology". Arv - Nordic Yearbook of Folklore. 61: 53–76. Johnson, William G.; Houtman, Marcia K. (1986). "Platonic...
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  • Bramble: The Mountain King (category Nixies (folklore))
    "Bramble: The Mountain King is an upcoming horror game inspired by Nordic folklore". Unreal Engine. 2022-08-17. Retrieved 2023-06-19. Chatziioannou, Alexander...
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    humanoid, and often shapeshifting water spirits in Germanic mythology and folklore. Under a variety of names, they are common to the stories of all Germanic...
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    Icelandic Ásatrúarfélagið describes Ásatrú as "Nordic pantheism" involving "belief in the Icelandic/Nordic folklore" including all the "spirits and entities"...
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    Mistletoe', in News from Other Worlds/Tíðendi ór ǫðrum heimum: Studies in Nordic Folklore, Mythology and Culture in Honor of John F. Lindow, ed. by Merrill Kaplan...
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  • Reginnaglar ', in News from Other Worlds/Tíðendi ór ǫðrum heimum: Studies in Nordic Folklore, Mythology and Culture in Honor of John F. Lindow, ed. by Merrill Kaplan...
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    Lindworm (category Northumbrian folklore)
    countries and the stories in which they appear. In Nordic folklore, specifically Swedish folklore, lindworms traditionally appear as giant forest serpents...
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    sees her as "Scandinavia's newest dark pop prodigy" with her love for Nordic folklore, similar to Björk's interest of Icelandic mountains and countrysides...
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    (2013-08-20). "Swedish Trance-Rappers Team Rockit Dig Pokémon and Nordic Folklore | Thump". Thump.vice.com. Archived from the original on 2014-02-21...
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    mythology Toell the Great - Estonian mythology Trolls - Nordic folklore Uriaș - Romanian folklore Ysbaddaden - Welsh mythology A Book of Giants Ruth Manning-Sanders...
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    Nordiska Väsen, was published in 2013, and describes creatures from Nordic folklore. He has subsequently released other books, including Nordiska gudar...
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  • Kvideland, Reimund; Sehmsdorf, Henning K.; Simpson, Elizabeth (eds.). Nordic Folklore: Recent Studies. Bloomington: Indiana UP. pp. 110–28. ISBN 9780253205216...
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  • The term is chiefly used with regard to elves and fairies in European folklore, and in modern English is rarely used in reference to spirits. The belief...
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  • (disambiguation) Vett (disambiguation) Vættir or vetter, creatures in Nordic folklore This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Vette...
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    Aldebaran represent hunters, dogs and a wounded bear respectively. Nordic folklore and literature have also featured polar bears. In The Tale of Auðun...
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    Revenant (redirect from Revenant (folklore))
    of Poland, Hungary, and Moravia." Revenants appear in Nordic literature, mythology, and folklore, variously called aptrgangr (pl. aptrgǫngur, "again-walker(s)")...
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    "thunderbolt" (thunder wedge), stemming from the thunderstones of Nordic folklore, called "åskviggar", said to come from the lightning strikes of Norse...
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  • small rice pot found by "pot hunters" as evidence of that practice. In Nordic folklore, the ättestupa is a cliff where elderly people were said to leap, or...
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