num_pages: 456
description: Here is a rich compendium of hundreds of legends stories beliefs and magic collected from oral sources in preindustrial Scandinavia. In this rural society the people lived close to nature and believed themselves an integral part of it. This volume focuses on beliefs that illustrate the central aspects of a traditional worldview rather than on prose narratives considered for their literary value.
language: English
title: Scandinavian Folk Belief and Legend (Volume 15)
publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press