Q: How many times does the ás-god Thor appear (by name or incognito) in my first advent calendar?
Christmas in Norway, 2025 is a slim tome of 24 texts, one for each day of December until Christmas Eve, when preparations cease and the day is celebrated with gifts, good food, and (above all) good company.
Details and links: https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/Christmas-in-Norway-2025
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Re-Tracing the Dance-Steps of the Hugboon: The Nordic Background of Orkney Folk Legends
5 December, online – free
In this seminar, Prof Terry Gunnell (University of Iceland) will explore the Nordic connections of Orkney legends & folklore
https://llc.ed.ac.uk/celtic-scottish-studies/css-seminar-series-251205
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An online seminar by Professor Terry Gunnell (University of Iceland) titled 'Re-Tracing the Dance-Steps of the Hugboon: The Nordic Background of Orkney Folk Legends'.
Even though you may have missed the beginning of advent, it is still possible to catch up.
Christmas in Norway, 2025 is a slim tome of 24 texts, one for each day of December until Christmas Eve, when preparations cease and the day is celebrated with gifts, good food, and (above all) good company.
Details and links: https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/Christmas-in-Norway-2025
#Christmas2025 #Advent #Scandinavia #Norway #Folktales #Legends #Bookstodon #eBook
Today’s the day, the first day of Advent!
Over the years, I have translated innumerous tidbits of folklore from all sorts of collectors and writers from across Scandinavia. This, my first advent calendar, is a way of publishing this work.
Christmas in Norway, 2025 is a slim tome of 24 texts, one for each day of December until Christmas Eve, when preparations cease and the day is celebrated with gifts, good food, and (above all) good company.
Details and links: https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/Christmas-in-Norway-2025
#Christmas2025 #Advent #Scandinavia #Norway #Folktales #Legends #Bookstodon #eBook
My thanks to everyone who has bought this book, and for your generosity. I hope it brings a smile (or 24), as you read each day.
Tomorrow is the first day of Advent. You get to start reading, text by text, day by day.
Over the years, I have translated innumerous tidbits of folklore from all sorts of collectors and writers from across Scandinavia. This, my first advent calendar, is a way of publishing this work.
Christmas in Norway, 2025 is a slim tome of 24 texts, one for each day of December until Christmas Eve, when preparations cease and the day is celebrated with gifts, good food, and (above all) good company.
Details and links: https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/Christmas-in-Norway-2025
#Christmas2025 #Advent #Scandinavia #Norway #Folktales #Legends #Bookstodon #eBook
Monday (the day after tomorrow) is the first day of Advent.
Over the years, I have translated innumerous tidbits of folklore from all sorts of collectors and writers from across Scandinavia. This, my first advent calendar, is a way of publishing this work.
Christmas in Norway, 2025 is a slim tome of 24 texts, one for each day of December until Christmas Eve, when preparations cease and the day is celebrated with gifts, good food, and (above all) good company.
Details and links: https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/Christmas-in-Norway-2025
#Christmas2025 #Advent #Scandinavia #Norway #Folktales #Legends #Bookstodon #eBook
A very wealthy and vain man said to the Hodja: "You can't even guess how much I am worth, can you?"
The Hodja gave him a look and said: "Sixty gold pieces."
"HA! My outfit alone is worth sixty gold pieces!"
The Hodja gave him another glance: "I know."
Translating a folktale published in a newspaper in the early twentieth century, and it appears that the editor and the proofreader haven't read it well enough to notice that certain plot details are missing.
Slop is not a new phenomenon, it seems.
So as I go along, I'm reconstructing the tale as best I can.
The Fox And The Hare A Russian Folktale
A Russian folk tale for children. Fabulously illustrated.
Retold in English by Irina Zheleznova
Drawings bv Evgeni Rachev
You can get the book here and here.
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