Explore: Tomtar

Among Gnomes and Trolls (Swedish: Bland tomtar och troll), is a popular Swedish folklore and fairy tales annual and children's fairy tale anthology published

covers, thus linking the Swedish version of Santa Claus to the gnomes and tomtar of Scandinavian folklore. Her father was a school teacher and piano teacher

Tomtar på loftet was the 1977 edition of Sveriges Radio's Christmas Calendar. 7 year old Lisa gets tired of her mother's cleaning for Christmas. She goes

portraits. He is best known for his illustrations of early editions of Bland tomtar och troll (Among Gnomes and Trolls), an anthology of Swedish folklore and

mid-19th century, there were still Christian men who made offerings to the tomtar spirit on Christmas day. The offering (called gifwa dem lön or "give them

those of his more naive friends. On the other hand, beings like trolls, tomtar and dragons exist on a very real plane in most of the stories. As the series

Sjökungens drottning (1911) by John Bauer, published in Bland tomtar och troll to illustrate Helena Nybloms retelling of the ballad.

children's story author Helena Nyblom as Bortbytingarna in the 1913 book Bland tomtar och troll. (which is depicted by the image), a princess is kidnapped by

Bland tomtar och troll (Among Gnomes and Trolls) was the 1986 edition of Sveriges Radio's Christmas Calendar. Olof Buckard reads fairy tales from the Swedish

Christianization of Scandinavia, belief in many spirits of Norse mythology such as tomtar, trolls, elves and dwarves lived on for a long time in Scandinavian folklore