This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1900. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... rejects all the etymons proposed for it, such, for example, as that of Grudmund Andrese, 6cm. ipyw; and with abundant reason. Some have thought that by the Dwarfs were to be understood the Finns, the original inhabitants of the country, who were driven to the mountains by the Scandinavians, and who probably excelled the new-comers in the art of working their mines and manufacturing their produce. Thorlacius, on the contrary, thinks that it was Odin and his followers, who came from the country of the Chalybes, that brought the metallurgic arts into Scandinavia. Perhaps the simplest account of the origin of the Dwarfs is, that when, in the spirit of all ancient religions, the subterranean powers of nature were to be personified, the authors of the system, from observing that people of small stature usually excel in craft and ingenuity, took occasion to represent the beings who formed crystals and purified metals within the bowels of the earth as of diminutive size, which also corresponded better with the power assigned them of slipping through the fissures and interstices of rocks and stones. Similar observations led to the representation of the wild and awful powers of brute nature under the form of huge giants. SCANDINAVIA. De vare syv og hundrede Trolde, De vare baade gramme og lede, De vilde gjbre Bonden et Gjs;sterie, Med hannem baade drikke og lede. Elinb Af Villenseov. There were seven and a hundred Trolls, They were both ugly and grim, A visit they would the farmer make, Both eat and drink with him. Under the name of Scandinavia are included the kingdoms of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, which once had a common religion and a common language. Their religion is still one, and their languages differ but little; we therefore feel that we may safely tre...

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The author's project to "collect, arrange, classify and give under one point of view the various ideas and legends respecting the Fairies and similiar beings of the popular creed, which lie scattered in a variety of books and a variety of languages."

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