Tierra Saga: The story of Skutt the Moose and Princess Tuvstarr. Princess Tuvstarr is one of several illustrations done in 1913 for the book Princess Tuvstarr and the Fishpond.
The images is of Princess Tuvstarr sitting by the pool looking for her heart from The story of Skutt the Moose and Princess Tuvstarr. Have you ever been in a large forest and seen a strange black tarn hidden deep among the tall trees? It looks bewitched and a little frightening. Scandinavian folklore. Scandinavian folklore is the folklore of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, and the Faroe Islands.
Collecting folklore began when Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden sent out instructions to all of the priests in all of the parishes to collect the folklore of their area in the 1630s. They collected customs, beliefs that were not sanctioned by the church, and other traditional material.
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