Strömkarlen from 1884 by Ernst Josephson has formed many modern Swedes' view of Näcken.
 This late 19th century painting by Johan Tirén shows a more conservative Swedish Näcken wearing the clothes of the local people. Nix (also known as Näcken, Nøkken, Näkki, Nixy or Nixe) are water creatures in German and Scandinavian folklore, usually shown in human form. The name is related to the Anglo-Saxon nicor, and Old High German nihus, all designating some kind of water fiend. Image File history File linksMetadata Josephson_Strömkarlen. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Josephson_Strömkarlen. ...
Strömkarlen Ernst Josephson (16 April 1851, Stockholm, Sweden - 22 November 1906) was a Swedish painter, whose main work was done on portraits and paintings of folk life. ...
Image File history File links Noekken_01c. ...
Image File history File links Noekken_01c. ...
Kittelsen is known for his drawings of trolls. ...
Image File history File links Johan_Tirens_naecken. ...
Image File history File links Johan_Tirens_naecken. ...
Scandinavian folklore is the folklore of Sweden, Norway and Denmark. ...
Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ...
The term Old High German (OHG, German: Althochdeutsch) refers to the earliest stage of the German language and it conventionally covers the period from around 500 to 1050. ...
Näcken
The Scandinavian näcken, nøkken, strömkarlen, Grim or Fosse-Grim was a male water spirit who played enchanted songs on the violin, luring women and children to drown in lakes or streams. However, not all of these spirits were necessarily malevolent; in fact, many stories exist that indicate at the very least that Fossegrim were entirely harmless to their audience and attracted not only women and children, but men as well with their sweet songs. Stories also exist wherein the Fossegrim agreed to live with a human who had fallen in love with him, but many of these stories ended with the Fossegrim returning to his home, usually a nearby waterfall or brook. Fossegrim are said to grow despondent if they do not have free, regular contact with a water source. For other uses, see Scandinavia (disambiguation). ...
This does not cite its references or sources. ...
If properly approached, he will teach a musician to play so adeptly "that the trees dance and waterfalls stop at his music," Sacred-Texts.com
It is difficult to describe the actual appearance of the nix, as one of his central attributes was thought to be shape shifting. Perhaps he did not have any true shape. He could show himself as a man playing the violin in brooks and waterfalls (though often imagined as fair and naked today, in actual folklore he was more frequently wearing more or less elegant clothing) but also could appear to be treasure or various floating objects or as an animal — most commonly in the form of a "brook horse" (see below). The modern Scandinavian names are derived from an Old Norse nykr, meaning "river horse." Thus, likely the brook horse preceded the personification of the nix as the "man in the rapids". Fossegrim and derivatives were almost always portrayed as especially beautiful young men, whose clothing (or lack thereof) varied widely from story to story. Old Norse or Danish tongue is the Germanic language once spoken by the inhabitants of the Nordic countries (for instance during the Viking Age). ...
The enthralling music of the nix was most dangerous to women and children, especially pregnant women and unbaptised children. He was thought to be most active during Midsummer's Night, on Christmas Eve and on Thursdays. However, these superstitions do not necessarily relate to all the versions listed here, and many if not all of them were developed after the Christianizing of the Northern countries, as were similar stories of faeries and other entities in other areas. A pregnant woman Pregnancy is the process by which a mammalian female carries a live offspring from conception until it develops to the point where the offspring is capable of living outside the womb. ...
Baptism in early Christian art. ...
Illumination of Earth by Sun on the day of summer solstice on northern hemisphere The summer solstice is an astronomical term regarding the position of the Sun in relation to the celestial equator. ...
The Christmas Eve (1904-05), watercolor painting by the Swedish painter Carl Larsson (1853-1919) Christmas Eve, the evening of December 24th, the preceding day or vigil before Christmas Day, is treated to a greater or a lesser extent in most Christian societies as part of the Christmas season. ...
If you brought the nix a treat of three drops of blood, a black animal, some brännvin (Scandinavian vodka) or snus (wet snuff) dropped into the water, he would teach you his enchanting form of music. Vodka bottling machine, Shatskaya Vodka Shatsk, Russia Vodka is typically a colorless liquor, usually distilled from fermented grain. ...
Portioned snus of the Granit label. ...
Snuff can refer to any of the following: Fine-ground smokeless tobacco, intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose Swedish snus tobacco, used between the cheek and upper gums American moist snuff, or dipping tobacco, placed between in the teeth and lower gums. ...
The nix was also an omen for drowning accidents. He would scream at a particular spot in a lake or river, in a way reminiscent of the loon, and on that spot a fatality would later take place. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
Some stories tell how the nix sings about his loneliness and his longing for salvation, which he purportedly never shall receive, as he is not "a child of God." In a poem by Swedish poet E. J. Stagnelius, a little boy pities the fate of the nix, and so saves his own life. This drawing is often used to depict Stagnelius peculiar appereance, although it may be exagerrated. ...
In Scandinavia, water lilies are called "nix roses" (näckrosor/nøkkeroser). A tale from the forest of Tiveden relates of how the forest had its unique red waterlilies through the intervention of the nix: Genera Barclaya Wall. ...
Tiveden is a Swedish forest famous for its scenery and notorious throughout history for its wilderness and dangers. ...
- At the lake of Fagertärn, there was once a poor fisherman who had a beautiful daughter. The small lake gave little fish and the fisherman had difficulties providing for his little family. One day, as the fisherman was fishing in his little dugout of oak, he met the Nix, who offered him great catches of fish on the condition that the fisherman gave him his beautiful daughter, the day she was eighteen years old. The desperate fisherman agreed and promised him his daughter. The day the girl was eighteen, she went down to the shore to meet the Nix. The Nix gladly asked her to walk down to his watery abode, but the girl took forth a knife and said that he would never have her alive, stuck the knife into her heart and fell down into the lake, dead. Then, her blood coloured the waterlilies red, and from that day the waterlilies of some of the lake's forests are red (Karlsson 1970:86).
A dugout is a boat which is basically a hollowed tree trunk. ...
Bäckahästen Bäckahästen (translated as the brook horse) is a mythological horse in Scandinavian folklore. It has a close parallel in the Scottish kelpie. // For the Derek Sherinian album, see Mythology (Derek Sherinian album). ...
Binomial name Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758 The horse (Equus caballus, sometimes seen as a subspecies of the Wild Horse, Equus ferus caballus) is a large odd-toed ungulate mammal, one of ten modern species of the genus Equus. ...
Scandinavian folklore is the folklore of Sweden, Norway and Denmark. ...
Gutt på hvit hest (Boy on white horse) by Theodor Kittelsen, depicting the nix as a white kelpie The kelpie is a supernatural shape-shifting water horse from Gaelic folklore that is believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland. ...
 The Nix as a brook horse by Theodor Kittelsen, a depiction of the Nix as a white horse It was often described as a majestic white horse that would appear near rivers, particularly during foggy weather. Anyone who climbed onto its back would not be able to get off again. The horse would then jump into the river, drowning the rider. The brook horse could also be harnessed and made to plough, either because it was trying to trick a person or because the person had tricked the horse into it. The following tale is a good illustration of the brook horse: Image File history File links Noekken. ...
Image File history File links Noekken. ...
Evening fog obscures Londons Tower Bridge from passers by. ...
- A long time ago, there was a girl who was not only pretty but also big and strong. She worked as a maid on a farm by Lake Hjärtasjön in southern Nerike. She was ploughing with the farm's horse on one of the fields by the lake. It was springtime and beautiful weather. The birds chirped and the wagtails flitted in the tracks of the girl and the horse in order to pick worms.
Gutt på hvit hest (Boy on white horse) by the same Kittelsen All of a sudden, a horse appeared out of the lake. It was big and beautiful, bright in colour and with large spots on the sides. The horse had a beautiful mane which fluttered in the wind and a tail that trailed on the ground. The horse pranced for the girl to show her how beautiful he was. The girl, however, knew that it was the brook horse and ignored it. Then the brook horse came closer and closer and finally he was so close that he could bite the farm horse in the mane. The girl hit the brook horse with the bridle and cried: "Disappear you scoundrel, or you'll have to plough so you'll never forget it." As soon as she had said this, the brook horse had changed places with the farm horse, and the brook horse started ploughing the field with such speed that soil and stones whirled in its wake, and the girl hung like a mitten from the plough. Faster than the cock crows seven times, the ploughing was finished and the brook horse headed for the lake, dragging both the plough and the girl. But the girl had a piece of steel in her pocket, and she made the sign of the cross. Immediately she fell down on the ground, and she saw the brook horse disappear into the lake with the plough. She heard a frustrated neighing when the brook horse understood that his trick had failed. Until this day, a deep track can be seen in the field. (Hellström 1985:16) Nericia, also Nerike or Närke, is a historical Province or landskap in middle Sweden. ...
Binomial name Motacilla alba Linnaeus, 1758 The White Wagtail (Motacilla alba) is a small passerine in the wagtail family Motacillidae, which also includes the pipits and longclaws. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Gutt_på_hvit_hest. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Gutt_på_hvit_hest. ...
The Sign of the Cross is performed mainly within Latin and Eastern Rite Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, and Lutheranism. ...
Nixe The German Nixe is a kind of river mermaid who lures men to drown, akin to the Celtic Melusine and similar to the Greek Siren. A Mermaid by John William Waterhouse. ...
Melusines secret discovered, from One of sixteen paintings by Guillebert de Mets circa 1410. ...
Odysseus and the Sirens. ...
Nixes are water spirits who try to lure people into the water. The males can assume many different shapes, including that of a human, fish, and snake. The females are beautiful women with the tail of a fish. When they are in human forms, they can be recognized by the wet hem of their clothes. The Nixes are considered as malignant in some quarters, but as harmless and friendly in others.
One famous Nixe of German folklore was Lorelei. According to the legend, she sat on the rock at the Rhine which bears now her name, and distracted fishermen from the dangers of the reefs with the sound of her voice. In Switzerland there is a legend (myth) of a seamaid or Nixe that lived in the lake of Zug (the lake is in the Canton of Zug). This very old legend from 1435 sounds very similar to Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid. German folklore shares many characteristics with Scandinavian folklore due to origins in a common Germanic mythology. ...
The Rock of Lorelei by the Rhine Lorelei Lorelei Loreley sign on the bank of the Rhine View of the Rhine as seen by Lorelei The Lorelei (originally written as Loreley) is a rock on the eastern bank of the Rhine near St. ...
Loreley At 1,320 kilometres (820 miles) and an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second, the Rhine (Dutch Rijn, French Rhin, German Rhein, Italian: Reno, Romansch: Rein, ) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe. ...
, capital of the Swiss canton of that name, is a picturesque little town at the northeastern corner of the lake of Zug, and at the foot of the Zugerberg (992 m (3255 ft. ...
Søren and David has GIANT P-nizzes ;) ( length: 20 cm, Diameter 6 cm ) FUCK YEAH :D This does not cite its references or sources. ...
The Little Mermaid (Den lille havfrue) is a fairy tale about a young mermaid who is willing to give up everything to gain the love of a prince and an eternal soul. ...
See also Huldra (the common Norwegian name) or Skogsrå (the common Swedish name) is a Scandinavian forest elf, or goddess if you will. ...
A Naiad by John William Waterhouse, 1893. ...
In Finnish mythology, a Näkki is a Nix that resides in murky pools, wells, docks, piers and under bridges that cross rivers. ...
This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ...
This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
This list contains humanoid species from works of fiction. ...
External links This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
Wiktionary is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...
The Owl Edition Nordisk familjebok (en. ...
The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia is an early 20th century encyclopedia, edited by Rev. ...
Bibliography - Hellström, AnneMarie. (1985). Jag vill så gärna berätta.... ISBN 91-7908-002-2
- Karlsson, S. (1970). I Tiveden, Reflex, Mariestad.
- Haunted, Kelly Armstrong
|
Feeds |
Contact