Swedish Legends and Folktales

Swedish Legends and Folktales by John Lindow gathers nineteenth- and twentieth-century oral narratives—legends, folktales, and first-person memorates—from across rural Sweden to reveal how storytelling reflected and shaped everyday life. Moving from Skåne’s market villages to the mountain shielings of the north, Lindow situates tales within the social fabric that produced them: self-sufficient farm households, itinerant soldiers and peddlers who ferried stories between parishes, and a Luthe...