Simple Swedish Podcast - #328 - Svensk folktro

Episode Date: June 8, 2026

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Hey there. You listener on Simple Swedish podcast. I sit here in Valencia at home as me as a very warmly. It is very warm. Somer has come it so yeah, it's very warm.

Dignet around. It is a pretty pretty, actually. I think it's nice. I've puttied you to Spain of an an and the and the end, maybe not, for the weather in for se,

but the weather is a very, very, very, uh, uh, fine bonus, that it is warm

and shun't in all the how far. How are it with you? Are it all right? Hopas, you have a shone week here tills, and that

summeren has come it to you also. In Sweden, if you are in in Sweden, so you the summer

in Juney. It's a very very great month. I think Juney is my favorite

month in in the country. Maybe much for that summer has been

and you have all from for so, it would be shone. And

people in in the we're very glad and we see from the summering whole year and it three months, as it is really summer, so

that you must really take over on that time. To take over on something that that you really you really you're of the time,

or you can say that on a certain for that it is just now that you're, you know, and you're making extra focus on it,

and really, you know, of it, but, you know, on, on the, on the,

on the, on the, on the, and so. And, the, theme for today,

is a, swensk, folk, I got the I got the I got the this week this week. So this week we do, so this week and

we then here we, though, temat folk tro, and Swedish season, as you can't have heard of, it is this three-monaders programet that I started in March and it is soon, so our deltogers

have held on with this in 11 weeks now, and they're soon clara. But we're going to continue to carry an another program

under the summer and you can be with it also. So see till to be a a newhead's brevet for you all information the things. It will be

trevly, we'll have lecioner under the summer on different things and with much discussion and conversation's and conversation's so I'll leave

a link to the newhet's brevet in the description so that you can hold you updetered if you not already are with so

but now Now we're going to talk about Folktro So, what is that? I mean, it about the overnaturial

vesen Also, troll, to example, or neckon, elvors, and vettar, and tomtas,

and skoksroet, and so many And if you don't have about this, I'm going to tell you I'm more about the varelser so that vesen

is like some some sort of varelse or and that maybe actually actually actually not a deer in the

we're not we're not about elia and caniners and rawduring, but we're about about over-natural wanes,

beretelsers that have funnits traditionally in the culture in many hundred years. So,

that is folk-trow. And it is not, he either same thing as mythology. So it is not the

these gudana with Odens and Loke and Freya and Jettarna and Asgothed and Jotunheim and these things. So it is not the Nordicca mythology, for that was more religionen. So, folktron, it is more the everyday. So on something So on You know When you're out of the skugent

Or go on yacht Or when you're Arbettar Or when you're Sovare So, So, So,

So, these Berettelses and Wesen That's in Folks' Vardag. So it is, So, do, Folktro. and we

we're so-you-you-the-crast-of-sohn, so-tall-the-court-in-tiden. So, now for the time, so is, you, folk-trow not so near-varend in people's vada, but it can be, it can be very interesting

to to know about for that it's the us still far as it's in the culture it's in

traditions it's in our words sprach also a wordsporak to example on

on on when when when you talk about trolling so say that you

say that you and a person say that you about your compice on and then and so comes the compices

just when you talk about the person then can you say when you talk about the trollen

on English say you talking of the devil but on when on when you

when you talk on trollen and it is a foreshorting when you're the trougham so farstun so fastun is the first room

that you come in in a house it's fastun so when you talk about trolle then you start them in fastun so it's a little sort of wordspoken

and so that this folk-tron is near-waring in culture in in a culture in some set and the first

the I should name here is the school's rowet and a scoxroth it is a a quinnly

vesen and she finds in the skogen and she has some sort inflitande

on the dureen in the all that are in the So if you are in the So, so, so, so, so you

be a little bit of your vact. You must, I mean, also, there's, you must be to be able, you must upfaring in the in the in the skogen. For that, if you

not do it, so, so can skux-roth come and straffa you, whole So, So, So,

the look a vicar but it but just from from so if you see

her from so she she out she's she's but

if you see her back from then she she's

she out as an in hohly tradstam i

hohly that it there inut inut in it's, if you think, a tree, and so have you

the stamen on the trotet, it's the, the stamen, stocken. And if a tree has

died, and it has fallen, and it has legged long, long, then,

then multnar insidan of stammen, and it can be in-h-h-lig with the so that it It will, it will, it will, it's like, it's like an in-hullly trath-stam.

So, think, so, so, so, it's so, it's a little, quite lest, can I think, I'm, I think, that you are in the skugent, and so see you're a valky-kvindna, and then, but back-ifron, so, so, is she, a-holing trad-stam, yeah. And if you were jacred in the skuged she, so, so could she beluner you beluner you with good yachtlyca. If you respecter the skuggen and respecter the nature, then she can she belurna you with good but but you were but she was

she was she was she she was farly she could forfehrer men and lock in them in them in

the skogen that forfehrer it is that you know that how can I for clarer that

you can well say that after she was very vacker so could she to and, like,

to try to to make me in the same in the in the skogen, that she says, come, come,

that she furfure him and locker in him in him in the so. So, it is the skux-roet. Then,

then have we elvors, and an elva is not, An alv, first and alv, an alv, it is the here,

to example, in the Sagan of Ringen, Legolas, and in these sagu-na, so, there we're talking about alver. But this is not alver, but we're talking about elvors.

An elva, it's something another. It is also a quinnly vesen. And elvors, they're, they're, they're,

they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, with elvdance. So if you have seen, on a eng,

or in a skux glenta, to example, tidit on the moronan, or in skimningen, so, so, can, so, can't you see it dimma. And when the lightet

If it's Dimmon, so can it be a slacks lus phenomenon. And it's, it's, witt, mystistist

that you can see. And that are elvorna that dancear, all quite and, so they can

dance in monscheneet, or they can dance in gryningenien, and so, and eglentor and so. And it's something very

vatic, but if you sturd their dance, so could you be sick, or you could be galen, or something, something dolead could happen, if you stutter the elvorn in their

dance. And then have we, then we, then, the neckon. And neckon is also a farly, actually, it's like, it's like all of the vass-vests, or vesen, how far, say you? All these are, you farly,

on some set. So, so it's always something that, something you must act to for. At acta something. It means that you holder back, or

you are a little extra upmerexam, so that that you don't have in far. You act as in the traffic. You must you act so that you

not be being on-cured of an bill, to example. So you acta you. You can, you, you, you can't, you're, and you're, and you're, afted-all-its-you-all-a-same-a-old-sogen. This is a, a man-ly-same-a-susen. And he, he holds in all-a-little. A wattendrug is, to example, a shone, a beck, an o'-a, and so-wider. And he

there And he's there And he's Heal He's playing on Heal So he's And he's

So he's He's the He's on the word Nekken He's Naken He's an

Annate For Naken is Nek To be Nek That be That means That you That you

That's That you That's not There can't It's Naken or necken and he's name.

And he's played very, very vackett on his fjul. And if you hear on him spell

so can you be for trollad of music and you can lockas nearer and nearer the vatnet and he can locka near to

in the water so that you drunkener to helpa. To locka it means that you do you do do something for to attracta or draw something to you. You can, to example, if you If you will lock a hund, so can you can you can you can whistle.

So, that lock someone is that you have something that that person will come nearer and so. So, Nicken, he then, locked to people with his, his, his, fiel, and he could and then to troughedrolla people with music in. To foretrolla

that you can use magic for that to uh, to example in Harry Potter so,

so, so, you can fortrollingingar. You can furtrolls a person so that personen can't to rar-rower-or-or-let-you-we-you-can-do, or, you know, what you can do.

So Neckin could, then, for-troll-day with his, his fjol-spel-speland-so that you lock, you'd be, you'd lockers to come nearer and nearer the vatnet, and so. And he had a little other name, be the region, so, to be in, so, to example, in Mellersta, Sweden,

so calls he also for strumcars. A car, it is an other word for man. So, a car, a man, same thing. Carar, plural

and a strump is the water if you're in the if you're in the water is strumped then it means it is very stark, it can draw in you, starker

starker so strumcarran it is you it referer to a man in the waternet in the He can also call us Kvark, Kvuhnugbe in norah

Sweden, and in Skona he calls he also beckamannan And a beck is a little vatendrag That often rins in the So a beck is like a little oa An oa is a little, little

a beck and then we then we, even stronger we, a lulled, or a flod. So. But a becka is a very little, a little vatendrag. And beckamann, you hear on the name what it means. So, it was omniquen. And he was omniped very much in, in Swedish culture. books and songs and and such things. So it can be

important to know. There is also a bluma that's called for necrose. And it is a bloma that is a vanguard. So if you are

on a show in in Sweden and you see blood and bloom-or that fliter on the

waternet then, then it and tagl. Yeah. And next vesen we should talk about is the most

chained. And it is troll. And troll is very very overcomable here in Sweden. And what

is a troll? So, in folk-tron so is trolleen actually, like you're in films, for in films are troll often great-stora

and they're, like, they're, like, strong monsters, so. But in folk-tron, so was troll more as menichur, so they're like,

meniches, whole so they saw it but they found there was always that they that they didn't

were people so it's something kind of something ofvikando so that that that this is

not a man but this is a person it's a troll it could be to example, that they had an that they had an over the

an extra an extra strong nesa, or that they have swans. So, to have a vans, it is really

a typical this, like, troll, troll, um, he can, what say, that,

if a mancha has a swans, then it's not a mancha, but then it's a troll. It's, like, troll has a vans.

But, but they're like them very much. And trollen, they both in the skogen, or in bergen.

So there were a skux-troll and bergat-troll. And their lives, they lived also, like, so,

I'm, they, they gifted with one and they They had They had families and they They'd and they

And so many But, but But they saw them They never And they had special They had special Ferdicieter

So, they could To example Forvandla To give to Dure Orh Tovvvvvvvvvich Tockar

To turnstocker To be It would That you That you they're just, shepenade, you can

form, they're they're going to be able to a year, it means that now, now see them out exactly

as an but it is not a a bird, but it's a troll, like that they had

for that they had forvandled to troll. And they could, to example, shale people,

so kidnapper people. and take the person, where they, where they're, where they're born. So if someone is kidnapped of a troll, and the trollet tarl, then call it to be bergeted-tagen. So, you know, one could say that a person has been berg-togen. Forstvenile, if someone has Someone has The person is Borta

He can you say, ah He has been a bird-taken It means that He has been brought-fired Of a troll And now he is Fongen Inberget, host trollen

He has been bergat And he has been bertagin And yeah, you know, You could go to try and tryka, and trying to back personen. And you could forhandle with trollen or trykker scrimm the trollen or such things for to get to back this man.

And they could also bita their children and and, and, and, and, and, and that callas Bortbiting. So, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, say that, that, that, that, that you have precisely had, and this, this is, is, constantly, on a set.

This is, kind of, is, kind of, is, actually, is, actually, is extra-aggressive, or or, or, or, or, has a swans. then this, this is not a man but a troll a bit bit, a troll has been

so a troll has come to and just bit out his barn and this here that you have now it is a troll-barn

an so-called a bot-biting so it was also a concept with botbytinger and troll, I think I, maybe extra interesting

just for that they were like they were, but it was something kind of something mystist, and you know, and you know, and they used troll for to

to clarify all the example for to clarify why are this barnet on some set? Or what happened with the

mancham that was in the skuggen or you could you to say to to bring

going to go not far long to in the skoven for that trolling there so that you're anvending

trolling for to talk about faror and soot and setet you're talking about

the trollen it like also how people and generally, today, about, about

about, or other people that you know that's not so much about. You're about it is un-kended. I mean,

that's not-wet-and-mystice, and you think that it's a little farly, the there personer that we not know so much about,

so that... You're talking of something that you really and therefore and that's not really and so, often maybe today about,

people and people that you know, but that you're a little afraid for, for that it's un-chained so. And I think that generally, so had

I thought people, I, I, I, I, I I, I, I'm, you know, the other vansen as forklaringer

on the unkended. This here we really know so much about, it's some is a little

mystist, it's, it's a little farly, and it was a set to, to, to

forklara and it was also a set to see till that people not went for long out in the skugent or that you know

was on his vact to be on your vact it is that you are a little upmarksome you hold you know

on your so so that it didn't happen something so and And, we will I give

a few film tips. We have, an film that's called Grins. And this is from 2018. And this film

has been about a troll. Fast we talk about the modern society, we talk about newtide.

So it It's a a woman who has very, very good, so she works on the plighton in tullen for that she has so

good lucbsinness so she can kind of know if people have droger in their vests and such things. Yeah, a wett. A very, yet-consty film and completely unique,

but I thought it was interesting and se-wavard. So, in the, Grens. It's a little I must, I must be

a lot of it, it's a little shockerating, but yeah, so, I'll call on Grins,

it got a mass outmackels and so on. And then another film that I will tipsa

on, it is Epilkriget from 1970, so it's a very a,

a, now, a very a very fine and a and in the film, you see many of the vansen, so you can actually see

many vases from Swedish folk, too, in this film. And there is also many, many chaineddaerspelers. Monica Settelund, to example, and the film is, you know,

so, so, so I'm also, by, Danielson, a known famous, so Epperciseur. So, Eppercregett. Kohl-in then also, and it's on Netflix, I

actually. But that was all for today, so I hope that you have upscatted it here, a little longer the off-snittet. I think that you can,

you can, you can set up on a off-snits here in the background, also listen to something interesting about something interesting, while you're in their own, so that it's perhaps is trevly to have a little longer off-snit, sometimes also.

That was all for today. I hope you have a fortuitous-treatly week, so we'll be soon again, and I'll leave, as said, a link in the description to New Hetsbrievet. I'm