Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Unter der Mitternachtssonne
Für wen es gedacht ist
You will love this book if you enjoy fairy tales, trolls and goblins, Christmas stories, clever heroes and gentle humor, or wish to share short northern tales aloud with children and friends.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
Under the Midnight Sun is a collection of folk tales, legends and short stories from Lapland and Sweden, brought together by Lehman Wendell. You will meet giants who are strong and foolish, mountain kings who live under hills, forest nymphs, goblins, lantern men and a witch whose house has a roof of cheese. Some pieces are old traditions about how the first people came to the North. Others are sketches of village life, Christmas nights and quick jokes. The tales are short and plain, and each one leaves a clear picture in the mind.
The book has a warm family feel. Wendell sets one group of tales beside his mother's fireplace in Illinois on a cold winter evening in 1888, where she tells her children about the land of the midnight sun. The same patterns return again and again. The small and clever beat the big and proud, greed and curiosity bring trouble, and kindness is repaid. Within these pages you cross forests, mountains, churches and mills without leaving your chair. Let us begin where the book begins, with the giants of Lapland and the people who outwit them.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1Lapp wit beats giant strengthFree
- 2Swedish giants meet small, clever foes
- 3Hidden kingdoms lie inside the hills
- 4Faith and the centuries on trial
- 5Cleverness and conscience in daily life
- 6Humor and a fireside voice
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Lapp wit beats giant strength
The book opens in Lapland, where old traditions say giants are feared for their huge size and their taste for human flesh. Yet these giants are lazy and clumsy, and the Lapps are far sharper. In The Giant's Bride, one such giant falls in love with a Lapp girl. Neither she nor her father wants him, but they dare not refuse, so they even thank him for the honor.
The father buys time. He sets a day for the giant to come and carry off his bride, then makes his plan. He takes a log the size of his daughter and dresses it in a new dress, a cap, a silver belt, shoes and laces. He stands it in a corner of the tent under a heavy veil, as Lapp custom asks. All the while, the real girl waits with reindeer and a sled behind a nearby hill.
The giant arrives, delighted by his beautifully dressed sweetheart, and at once demands the reindeer promised as a gift. He kills one for supper, and then the comedy begins. He asks his bride to put the pot on the fire, to split the bones, to serve the meat and to make the bed. Each time she does not move, and each time he decides she is only shy and does the work himself.
The Clever Lapp tells of a poor man who meets a giant and knows he will be eaten unless he wins by wit. He proposes contests, such as striking heads against a pine tree and throwing an ax as high as it will go. He prepares in the night and talks boldly in the morning. Between these tales comes The First People, a Lapp tradition of a great flood. Two siblings survive on the holy mountain Pasevaro, wander for years and meet without knowing each other. From them come the Sami and the Swedes.
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Questions about Unter der Mitternachtssonne
What is Under the Midnight Sun about?
It is a collection of folk tales, legends and humorous sketches from Lapland and Sweden. Giants, goblins, mountain kings, nymphs and a cheese-roof witch appear, along with village stories about fear, hunger, honesty and Christmas.
Who is Kronos in The Report of the Centuries?
Kronos is the Mountain King who rules a palace under a hidden mountain. Once each century, at midsummer, the mountain rises, and the spirits of the earlier centuries appear before him to explain how they lived.
Are these real Lapp and Swedish folk traditions?
Many tales are given as Lappish or Swedish traditions, such as the origin of the first people, the stones of Ulfgryto and Tiblo's palace. Others are told as family memories or as modern stories and jokes by Wendell.
Is Under the Midnight Sun easy to read aloud?
The tales are short, direct and full of repeated tricks, spoken lines and clear pictures. Each can be read in a few minutes, which makes the book welcoming for families, listeners and anyone who likes a quick story.
Who is Ansgar in The Light on the Hill?
Ansgar appears as the missionary called the apostle of the North, who brought the Christian message to Scandinavia. In Ingemar's dream, he carries a cross and speaks to the goblins and to the old gods Oden, Thor and Balder.