Nordic Folktale Water Creatures

Published: May 13, 2023, 3:34 a.m.

b'Join us as we explore folktales about the mosekone and lygtem\\xe6nd (bog woman and lantern men) of Danish marshes, the fearsome draug and sj\\xf8orm (sea spirit and sea serpent) of the northern coast of Norway, the musical fossegrim (water sprite) that inhabits Swedish waterfalls, and the treacherous horse-like nykur (nixie or n\\xf8kk) in the lakes of the Faroe Islands and Iceland.\\xa0 We include a tale by Hans Christian Andersen along the way. These are common folktales in the Nordic tradition about water.'