Huldra and northern-lights folklore in Scandinavian collections

Record summary

Folklore studies and popular collections in the period continued to discuss the huldra and related hidden-people traditions alongside Scandinavian explanations of unusual lights, fires, and wilderness sounds. The huldra is primarily a forest or mountain being rather than an Arctic sky entity, but northern regional versions connect supernatural encounters with remote landscapes and nocturnal illumination. This provides a comparative lead for examining how environmental hazards and lights become personified. The precise relationship between huldra narratives and aurora beliefs is often asserted too broadly and must be checked text by text.