[All]: Sveigðir’s death has been associated with a motif familiar from traditional folktales and known as (ModSwed.) bergtagning ‘abduction into a mountain by supernatural beings’ (see de Boor 1924, 552; Lindow 1995, 8; ‘Bergentrückt’ [‘mountain-lured’], HDA, 1, 1056-71; Boberg 1966, 109 (F 451.5.2.4 Dwarfs kidnap mortals)).
References
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- Boor, Helmut de. 1924. ‘Der Zwerg in Skandinavien’. In Festschrift Eugen Mogk zum 70. Geburtstag 19. Juli 1924. Halle an der Saale: Max Niemeyer, 536-57.
- HDA = Bächtold-Stäubli, Hanns and Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer, eds. 1927-1942. Handwörterbuch des deutschen Aberglaubens. 10 vols. Berlin and Leipzig: de Gruyter.
- Lindow, John. 1995. ‘Supernatural Others and Ethnic Others: A Millennium of World View’. SS 67, 8-31.