Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater

FOLKLORE

Folklore: translation

Folklore is a term used to designate the mostly oral traditions of a group of people; it includes such oral forms as legends,fairy tales, and ballads. Legends are typically short narratives that are anchored in a particular time and place recognizable and meaningful to the audience. A large number of the legends that were collected in traditional Scandinavian society tell about contact with beings of the normally invisible world. These creatures were spirits of mountains, forests, lakes, and rivers, as well as household spirits. Trolls and the hidden folk, two common terms for such beings, lived inside mountains and hills as well as underground, and they were believed to have an economic or sexual interest in humans; the latter was thought to be so because these beings could not obtain Christian salvation except through marriage to a Christian.Some of the spirits were clearly malevolent; for example, water sprites such as the nixie lured people to their deaths. Others behaved in ways that exemplified both fairness and good will.
Fairy tales are longer narratives than the legends and are less tied to a particular time and place. While most traditional audiences believed that legends were true, nobody but a small child would think so about a fairy tale. One of the most common motifs of the Scandinavian fairy tales is that of the young boy, the Ashlad, who through his cunning, wit, and courage wins a princess and half of her father's kingdom.
Medieval ballads have been collected all over Scandinavia and are similar to both legends and fairy tales in content. Many of them have their origin in printed texts owned and sung by the nobility; later these texts entered popular culture. Ballad singing appears to have accompanied ring dancing, and this practice has survived up to modern times in the Faroes.
Folkloristic texts had a very strong influence on Scandinavian literature, particularly during theromanticperiod. In NorwayJohan Sebastian Welhavenwrote a series of narrative poems that are essentially retellings of legends. The Dane Hans Christian Andersen modeled his widely read fairy tales on actual stories told by the folk. In one of his best-known dramas,Peer Gynt(1867; tr. 1892),Henrik Ibsenuses legendary material to great dramatic and comical effect.
See alsoGoldschmidt, Meir Aron; Heiberg, Johan Ludvig; Lönnrot, Elias; Rydberg, Viktor; Strindberg, August.

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  2. folklore—folklore bersetzungFolklore f folklore [flkl] Substantif masculin tradition populaire Folklore fmininem crmonial Sitten und Gebruche Plurielem cinma [Affen]theater...Dictionnaire Francais-Allemand
  3. folklore—folklore translationSynonyms and related wordsMishnah Spiritus Mundi Sunna Talmud ancient wisdom archetypal myth archetypal pattern charm common law custom fairy lore fai...Moby Thesaurus
  4. folklore—[fkl]фольклор...Англо-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь
  5. folklore—[fkl]фольклор...Англо-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь
  6. folklore—фольклор...Англо-русский вспомогательный словарь
  7. folklore—фольклор...Англо-русский дополнительный словарь
  8. folklore—фольклор...Англо-русский онлайн словарь
  9. folklore—фольклор...Англо-русский онлайн словарь
  10. folklore—n фольклор...Англо-русский словарь Лингвистика-98
  11. folklore—folklore noun фольклор...Англо-русский словарь Мюллера
  12. folklore—сущ. фольклор Syn folklore...Англо-русский словарь общей лексики
  13. folklore—сущ. фольклор Syn folklore...Англо-русский словарь общей лексики
  14. folklore—nфольклор устное народное творчество.strong фольклор устное народное творчество. erotic folklore...Англо-русский словарь по социологии
  15. folklore—n. фольклор...Англо-русский словарь редакция bed
  16. folklore—сущ.emфольклор устное народное творчество. erotic folklore[m]...Англо-русский социологический словарь
  17. folklore—n...Англо-украинский словарь
  18. folklore—фольклорний фольклор...Англо-український словник
  19. folklore—фольклор...Англо-український словник
  20. folklore—n фольклор....Англо-український словник Балла М.І.
  21. folklore—m...Большой испанско-русский словарь
  22. folklore—f фольклористика фольклор...Большой немецко-русский и русско-немецкий словарь
  23. folklore—Folklorestrong f фольклоstrongр...Большой немецко-русский словарь
  24. folklore—m фольклор народное творчество занятные подробности cest du folklore разг. это не серьзно...Большой французско-русский и русско-французский словарь
  25. folklore—фольклор...Голландско-русский словарь
  26. folklore—фольклор...Дансько-український словник
  27. folklore—Фольклор...Датсько-український словник
  28. folklore—Фольклор...Нидерландско-русский словарь
  29. folklore—[fkl] n...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
  30. folklore—folklore [fkl] ni фольклор...Новый большой англо-русский словарь II
  31. folklore—fkl n фольклор...Новый большой англо-русский словарь под общим руководством акад. Ю.Д. Апресяна
  32. folklore—m фольклор народное творчество занятные подробности cest du folklore разг. это не серьзно...Новый французско-русский словарь
  33. folklore—Фольклор...Норвезько-український словник
  34. folklore—m cest du folklore...Французско-русский фразеологический словарь
  35. folk|lore—flklr.strong фольклор...Шведско-русский словарь
  36. folklore—Фольклор...Шведсько-український словник