A collection of macabre and magical folklore from the "godfather"
of the Norwegian troll Across the stillness of the sprawling
mountain heath, the shadow of the mighty forest falls, its wildness
calling to the child in all of us. Here the Hidden Folk assemble:
the stalwart little nisse, farmyard spirit and irrepressible
prankster; the seductive hulder, with her crown of flowers and
cow's tail; the fiddling fossegrim, summoning the music of wind and
water; and most fearsome and enchanting of all, the one-eyed troll,
head high above the treetops. A veritable bestiary of Nordic folk
creatures was conjured by artist Theodor Kittelsen, whose late
nineteenth-century paintings and illustrations gave these macabre
and magical figures their enduring forms. In this book, first
published as Troldskab in 1892, Kittelsen spins tales of wonder
around creatures rumored to haunt the fields, forests, and
waterfalls of Norway. Striding, gamboling, and slithering across
these pages are witches and gnomes and sea monsters, fiery dragons
waking from their stiff-winged slumber, mermaids rising from the
deep, and the sly, shapeshifting nokk. But first and foremost are
the trolls, hapless, horrible, or just plain silly, working their
spells and making their mischief to the terror and delight of the
presumably human reader. Tailoring his whimsical artistic style to
each tale, Kittelsen's stories, in Tiina Nunnally's nimble
translation, reveal a Nordic world of wonder, myth, and magic as
real as the imagination allows.
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