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: The article has been tagged as requiring a rewrite for over two years. Many articles in this area are not so great unfortunately. [[User:Hrodvarsson|Hrodvarsson]] ([[User talk:Hrodvarsson|talk]]) 02:41, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
: The article has been tagged as requiring a rewrite for over two years. Many articles in this area are not so great unfortunately. [[User:Hrodvarsson|Hrodvarsson]] ([[User talk:Hrodvarsson|talk]]) 02:41, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
::I agree that the article badly needs a rewrite. If you're interested in working in these corners, I also invite you to join [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Folklore|WikiProject Folkore]], which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of folklore and folklore studies-related topics. [[User:Bloodofox|:bloodofox:]] ([[User talk:Bloodofox|talk]]) 21:09, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
::I agree that the article badly needs a rewrite. If you're interested in working in these corners, I also invite you to join [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Folklore|WikiProject Folkore]], which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of folklore and folklore studies-related topics. [[User:Bloodofox|:bloodofox:]] ([[User talk:Bloodofox|talk]]) 21:09, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
:I will add to this that topics such as food and culturally important locations are not very relevant to folklore. The article is not about Nordic culture in general. [[Special:Contributions/198.160.139.1|198.160.139.1]] ([[User talk:198.160.139.1|talk]]) 02:52, 10 December 2023 (UTC)


== Other candidates ==
== Other candidates ==

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Gjenganger / skrømt

In Scandinavian folklore, the terms 'gjenganger' and 'skrømt' are often both used to name the gjenganger-phenomenon, while 'skrømt' is also used as a name for supernatural happenings in general. On this page 'skrømt' redirects to 'ghost', which I think is wrong as the ghost-article mostly refers to modern day perception of ghosts, which differs from the "scandinavian folklore perception" of them (see the gjenganger article). Should the 'gjenganger' and 'skrømt' articles be merged, or remain as they are? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kvitorm (talkcontribs) 18:26, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why here again is mixing Nordic and Scandinavian especially in context of excluding or including present day Finland. Norse/Scandianavia historywriting has strong interlinks with movements that lead to/were part of german national socialist movement. And these ideological undercurrents of etnic supremacy are easily visible for keen eye in these discussions. If you don't want to be assosiated with such a garbage, please keep that in mind. To begin to understand the complexicity one should maybe start with the not-so-early 1800-ethnographic maps and observe, that much of the present day northern Sweden and Norway were in fact populated, not only by Sami but actual Finns. This has been in still is not in bublic avareness even though fact is easily verifiable for anyone with basic academic skilla. And on the other hand Scandinavia in it's orginal form reallly only and strictly only refers to present day Skåne (southern tip of present day Sweden). Thank you. 213.28.224.223 (talk) 09:54, 22 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Problematic article from a folkloristic point of view

This article has multiple issues, and may need to be completely rewritten. First of all, the presentation of roots in Norse mythology is speculative at best. Furthermore, the list of beings seem rather arbitrary (and written from a popular cultural / non-native point of view?). I will start to rewrite parts, but will need help. Best, (Norwegian folklorist) Ida Tolgensbakk (talk) 13:04, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The article has been tagged as requiring a rewrite for over two years. Many articles in this area are not so great unfortunately. Hrodvarsson (talk) 02:41, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that the article badly needs a rewrite. If you're interested in working in these corners, I also invite you to join WikiProject Folkore, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of folklore and folklore studies-related topics. :bloodofox: (talk) 21:09, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I will add to this that topics such as food and culturally important locations are not very relevant to folklore. The article is not about Nordic culture in general. 198.160.139.1 (talk) 02:52, 10 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Other candidates

Hi, what about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draugr ? Fossegrimen, deildegasten ... and probably more. T 84.208.86.134 (talk) 08:13, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]