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Qvigstad Collection

Sami legends and tales from Just Qvigstad's folklore fieldwork collections.

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Legends from the Qvigstad CollectionThirty-six Skolt and North Sami legends of the dangerous dead — the utbord who demands baptism, the eater-noaide who gnaws through pines after burial, draugar blocking roads and holding horses fast, phantom reindeer-drivers, invisible wilderness dwellers, and a man who speaks with the ghost of the woman who once loved himTales from the Qvigstad CollectionTwelve Sami folk tales from J. Qvigstad's bilingual collection — Nikkala who outwits a giant, a lucky boy and Per Kremmer, a servant rescued by Bishop Mattias, the gand and the Devil and Death, Christmas Stallos teaching munnharpe, the Virgin Mary and the bear, an Oedipus noaidi prophecy, two wastrel brothers reunited with their father, a lazy daughter who abandons her mother on an island, a bailiff shamed by a king in disguise, the spider that saved a man, and the drunkard's son redeemed by a broken rope.Tales from the Qvigstad Collection — Volume IIEighteen tales from J. Qvigstad's Lappiske eventyr og sagn, Volume II (Troms and Finnmark, 1929) — noaide shamans as royalty and outcasts; the Virgin Mary's kerchief against the pagan king's noaidis; the Seven Sleepers; the Eternal Wanderer; the fool who silences the princess; a man outwitted by fate; the faithful wife vindicated; a Danish prince and a proud English princess; Anders Buhara the fated king; the clever boy who teaches wisdom; a soldier who slays twelve robbers; a blind man's trough-test that determines family wealth for generations; the lovers' graves where birches twine over the church roof; two reindeer-herding women and a stolen son; the trickster servant who asks 'Are you dissatisfied?' until his master finally says yes; the boy who outfoxes a giant with cheese-curd and a half-burned bed; Stallo's stolen dreng who empties a money-hole and floods the gamme; and the cobbler who terrifies small devils into enriching him