#fagertärn

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På ytan (On the surface) | Oil by Håkan Bremberg, SWEDEN

We had visited Fagertärn, the little lake in the wildernes of Sweden. This is the place where all red water lilies in the world originally come from. After quite a few years, I painted this – a memory of the beautiful lake. I tried to maintain the feeling from that place.

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The waterlily tarn. 720 nm. . . . . . . . #tiveden #fagertärn #visitnärke #visittiveden #visitsweden #hemester #staycation #staycation2020 #infrared_world #infraredphotos #infrared_images #infrared_photography #infraredphotographer #creativeinfrared #creativeinfrared_world #creativeinfrared_europe #creativeinfrared_nature #creativeinfrarednature #infrared_moments #infrared_nature #forestphotography #forestwalk #forestlovers #mindfulmoments (på/i Fagertärn Naturreservat) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCYA_SlHOSY/?igshid=1tpwpqwkn40lg

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Legenden om den röda näckrosen.

elsa beskow, älvor

Ondska, svartsjuka och tillslut mord!

Vi har alla hört om troll och älvor som bor djupt in i Svenska skogarna. Trollen leker kurragömma med barnen, som sedan går vilse i skogen medan älvorna lockar betydligt äldre människor med sin bländande skönhet. Dessutom känner vi “näcken” denne fiolspelande figur som lockar barn och andra att följa honom in i vattnet och på så sätt dränker dem.

Troll

Inte lika många känner till legenden om den röda näckrosen i Tiveden (Ti =Gud, veden=skogen).  Namnet Guds skog kommer av att skogen är så tät att ingen människa kan gå igenom den, vidare utgör den numera gräns mellan två län.

Vit Näckros

I Sverige är nämligen näckrosor vita, fagertärn är det enda undantaget , den enda sjön i Sverige med röda näckrosor. Enligt legenden blev näckrosorna röda utav den mänskliga ondskan.  Vid fagertärns strand låg förr ett litet hus (torp), där bodde en man och hans dotter. 

Röd Näckros

De livnärde sig (levde) på jakt och fiske. Dottern var mycket vacker och hade många beundrare och en ung man hade vunnit hennes hjärta. En dag då de rodde tillsammans i fagertärn fick plötsligt en annan beundrare syn på dem och blev mycket svartsjuk.Han simmade fram till ekan där de satt och med sin kniv dödade han henne där, mitt i sjön detta är anledningen till att sjöns vita näckrosor blev röda utav flickans blod.  Blodet färgade de vita näckrosorna röda och efter denna strid om en fager tärnas kärlek kallas sjön för fagertärn. 

Fagertärn är 9.5 meter djup, ligger 162,7 meter över havet, och i ett naturområde i Närke.

Interesanta ord:

*Naken → Näcken → Näckros

*Naked → The Näken(from the legend) → The water lily flower

Gammal Svenska(old Swedish words):

*Torp = Hus

*Ti = Gud

*Ved = Skog 

*Tiveden = Guds skog

*Fager= Vacker

*Tärna= Flicka

*Fagertärn= Sjöns namn (i örebro)

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Nøkken

The Scandinavian NÄCK, NÄKKI, NØKK, NØKKEN, STRÖMKARL, GRIM or FOSSE-GRIM were male water spirits 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 nøkken were entirely harmless to their audience and attracted not only women and children, but men as well with their sweet songs. Stories also exist where in the Fossegrim agreed to live with a human who had fallen in love with him, but many of these stories ended with the nøkken returning to his home, usually a nearby waterfall or brook. (Compare the legend of Llyn y Fan Fach in Wales.) Nøkken are said to grow despondent if they do not have free, regular contact with a water source.

If properly approached, he will teach a musician to play so adeptly “that the trees dance and waterfalls stop at his music.”

It is difficult to describe the actual appearance of the nix, as one of his central attributes was thought to be shapeshifting. 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 there of) varied widely from story to story.

The enthralling music of the nøkken was most dangerous to women and children, especially pregnant women and unbaptisedchildren. 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.

When malicious nøkken attempted to carry off people, they could be defeated by calling their name; this, in fact, would be the death of them.

If you brought the nøkken 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.

The nøkken 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. He was also said to actually cause drownings, but swimmers could protect themselves against such a fate by throwing a bit of steel into the water.

In the later Romantic folklore and folklore-inspired stories of the 19th century, the nøkken 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 nøkken, and so saves his own life. In the poem, arguably Stagnelius’ most famous, the boy says that the Näck will never be a “child of God” which brings “tears to his face” as he “never plays again in the silvery brook.” On a similar theme, a 19th-century text called “Brother Fabian’s Manuscript” by one Sebastian Evans has this verse:

Where by the marishes boometh the bittern, Neckar the soulless one sits with his ghittern. Sits inconsolable, friendless and foeless. Waiting his destiny, - Neckar the soulless.

(The source has “bloometh” for “boometh”, but this is clearly an error; a bittern is not a plant, but a bird, and it is known for its booming call. A “ghittern” is a guitar. The spelling “Nickar" VICE "Neckar” is sometimes used.)

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 water lilies through the intervention of the nøkken:

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 Nøkken, 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 the Nøkken his daughter. The day the girl was eighteen she went down to the shore to meet the Nøkken. The Nøkken 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, then stuck the knife into her heart and fell down into the lake, dead. Then, her blood coloured the water lilies red, and from that day the water lilies of some of the lake’s forests are red.

[vanatruar22]

In Scandinavia, le ninfee vengono chiamate "Rose dei Nix" (näckrosor/nøkkeroser). Una storia che proviene dalla foresta di Tiveden, in Svezia, racconta di come la foresta abbia le sue particolarissime ninfee grazie all'intervento di un "Nix": "Presso il lago di Fagertärn, c'era una volta un povero pescatore che aveva una bellissima figlia. Il piccolo lago peró procurava poco pesce ed il pescatore aveva difficoltà a sfamare la sua piccola famiglia. Un giorno, mentre il pescatore stava pescando sulla sua canoa di legno di quercia, incontrò un Nix, che gli offrì una abbondante pesca in cambio della sua bella figlia quando avesse compiuto diciotto anni. Il pescatore, disperato, accetto e promise sua figlia al Nix. Il giorno in cui la ragazza compì diciotto anni, si recò presso la riva del lago, per incontrare il Nix. Il Nix felice le chiese di scendere nella sua dimora sott'acqua ma la ragazza tirò fuori un coltello e disse che non l'avrebbe mai avuta viva, così si conficcò il pugnale nel cuore e cadde morta nel lago. Fu cosi che il sangue colorò le ninfee di rosso e da quel giorno le ninfee di alcuni dei laghi della foresta sono rosse." #vanatruitalia #occultismo #italia #runologia #magiarunica #galdrastafir #trolldom #grimorio #sciamanesimo #ribellione #necromancy #ossa #stregoneria #mitologianordica #paganesimo #rune #spiritualita #ricordo #esoterismo #islanda #scandinavia #filosofia #magia https://www.instagram.com/p/CVfv_pLrh3-/?utm_medium=tumblr

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A new book cover illustration, featuring the Scandinavian water spirit the Nøkken, who manifests as a handsome youth playing the violin.  Based on a story about a lake in the forest of Tiveden where the water lilies grow red. 

What I find so exciting is that the story provides a narrative reason for it, but the lake in the story, Fagertärn, is actually where the European variety of red water lilies originated. Colloquially, they are called nøkkeroser, or nix roses. 

[edvandoli-blog]

Waterlily tarn. My take on Monets waterlily pond. It is said that his waterlilies may originate from this little forest lake (tarn). 720nm . . . . . . . . . . #water_shots #water_captures #forestphotography #forestwalk #forestlovers #forestmagic #tarn #infrared_world #infraredphotos #infrared_photography #creativeinfrared_global #creativeinfrared_nature #mysteriousworld (på/i Fagertärn Naturreservat) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCajahEHjqr/?igshid=2tsxxtzs4sbe