Scandinavian Folk Belief and Legend

Reimund Kvideland is professor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnology at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has been editor of Tradisjon since 1975 and contributes to various other ethnology and folkloristic journals. Henning K. Sehmsdorf is professor of Scandinavian and comparative literature at the University of Washington. He is editor of Northwest Folklore and has written numerous articles on folklore, mythology, and Scandinavian and comparative literature.