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common in their lands. However, there are some commonalities across Scandinavian folkloric traditions, among them a common ground in elements from Norse mythology

and folklore. Under a variety of names, they are common to the stories of all Germanic peoples, although they are perhaps best known from Scandinavian folklore

one of the most familiar creatures of Scandinavian folklore, and he has appeared in many works of Scandinavian literature. The nisse is frequently introduced

Sturluson; the Norwegian Rune Poems, in the poetry of skalds, and in Scandinavian folklore. Loki may be depicted on the Snaptun Stone, the Kirkby Stephen Stone

family units, and are rarely helpful to human beings. In later Scandinavian folklore, trolls became beings in their own right, where they live far from

had been replaced by Christianity, with elements continuing in Scandinavian folklore. A revival of interest in Old Norse religion occurred amid the romanticism

sometimes associated with the Valkyries and disir. Shieldmaidens in Scandinavian folklore were women who did not have the responsibility for raising a family

"Sörla þáttr"; in the poetry of skalds; and into the modern age in Scandinavian folklore. Scholars have debated whether Freyja and the goddess Frigg ultimately

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zmora; among many others) is a malicious entity in Germanic and Slavic folklore that walks on people's chests while they sleep, bringing on nightmares