Bergsrå
The Bergsrå (Mountain Rå), Bergatrollet (Mountain Troll), or Bergakungen (Mountain King) was a mythical creature of the mountain in Norse mythology.
The bergrå could be either masculine or feminine. It lived in the mountain with a court of relatives and sometimes surrounded by trolls. It was a common phenomenon in the mythology about the bergsrå to trick people into their dwellings in the mountain and to become bergtagen (literary: "taken into the mountain"). These bergtagnings (Swedish: abduction into the mountain) are usual are done by lone males and their victims tend to be women. [1]
A typical description of such a claimed occurrence was given by Sven Andersson in 1691 when he was on trial for having sexual intercourse with a female bergrå.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Conrad, JoAnn (2021-03-18). "Taken into the Mountain: Cavernous and Categorical Entrapments". ProQuest.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Grimberg, Carl; Åberg, Alf (1960). Svenska folkets underbara öden. 4, 1660–1707. Stockholm. SELIBR 8074835.
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Other sources
[edit]- Ake Hultkrantz Editor (1961) The Supernatural Owners Of Nature Nordic Symposion on The Religious Conceptions of Ruling Spirits (Genii loci, genii speciei) and Allied Concepts (Almquist & Wiksell) [ISBN missing]
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