Author: Albert Jørgensen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982877883
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A delightful children's book about a Danish farm family and the Nisse that brings them luck and takes good care of them. Nisser are small invisible people of Danish (and Norwegian) folktales, known for their hard work and iconic red hats. However, if they don't receive their yearly wage of a bowl of Christmas porridge, they become very angry and play tricks on their human families. This collection of charming stories by Albert Jørgensen was first published in Danish as "Nissebogen" in 1935. The text of this English translation by Anne Ipsen is faithful to the original and includes the numerous original ink drawings by Louis Moe, famous for his imaginative illustrations of many classical Christmas books for children.
The Nisse Book
Author: Albert Jørgensen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982877883
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A delightful children's book about a Danish farm family and the Nisse that brings them luck and takes good care of them. Nisser are small invisible people of Danish (and Norwegian) folktales, known for their hard work and iconic red hats. However, if they don't receive their yearly wage of a bowl of Christmas porridge, they become very angry and play tricks on their human families. This collection of charming stories by Albert Jørgensen was first published in Danish as "Nissebogen" in 1935. The text of this English translation by Anne Ipsen is faithful to the original and includes the numerous original ink drawings by Louis Moe, famous for his imaginative illustrations of many classical Christmas books for children.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982877883
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A delightful children's book about a Danish farm family and the Nisse that brings them luck and takes good care of them. Nisser are small invisible people of Danish (and Norwegian) folktales, known for their hard work and iconic red hats. However, if they don't receive their yearly wage of a bowl of Christmas porridge, they become very angry and play tricks on their human families. This collection of charming stories by Albert Jørgensen was first published in Danish as "Nissebogen" in 1935. The text of this English translation by Anne Ipsen is faithful to the original and includes the numerous original ink drawings by Louis Moe, famous for his imaginative illustrations of many classical Christmas books for children.
The Christmas Nisse
Author: Rikke Melgaard Liffiton
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525578367
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A delightful Christmas story for families. The Christmas Nisse presents a Danish Christmas tradition about the magical little Nisse. These mischievous creatures live at the North pole with Santa. On the last night of November, they roam through the cold to find their way to your home. You know they have arrived when their little door appears. The Christmas Nisse is on a mission to create and collect Christmas Joy to make Santa's sleigh fly. How do you help the Nisse, you ask? Bring this beautiful tradition into your home and find out.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525578367
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A delightful Christmas story for families. The Christmas Nisse presents a Danish Christmas tradition about the magical little Nisse. These mischievous creatures live at the North pole with Santa. On the last night of November, they roam through the cold to find their way to your home. You know they have arrived when their little door appears. The Christmas Nisse is on a mission to create and collect Christmas Joy to make Santa's sleigh fly. How do you help the Nisse, you ask? Bring this beautiful tradition into your home and find out.
The Christmas Nisse
Author: Patrick Nielsen
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1788088247
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Just when Bruno most needs it, a cheeky Scandinavian Christmas nisse elf is sent to find out about English Christmas, and to create mischief. This Advent Calendar story is a heart-warming tale full of Scandi hygge which will take you all the way to Christmas with a chapter for each day of December. Find out what antics the naughty elf gets up to when she senses that people are not being Christmassy enough! From carols to trees, and yumtastic peppernuts, this is a charming fusion of English and Scandinavian Christmas cheer. Ideal for primary-aged children and the young at heart, make this a family favourite to be read year after year, and create a new family Christmas tradition.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1788088247
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Just when Bruno most needs it, a cheeky Scandinavian Christmas nisse elf is sent to find out about English Christmas, and to create mischief. This Advent Calendar story is a heart-warming tale full of Scandi hygge which will take you all the way to Christmas with a chapter for each day of December. Find out what antics the naughty elf gets up to when she senses that people are not being Christmassy enough! From carols to trees, and yumtastic peppernuts, this is a charming fusion of English and Scandinavian Christmas cheer. Ideal for primary-aged children and the young at heart, make this a family favourite to be read year after year, and create a new family Christmas tradition.
The Nisse of Christmas
Author: Tammy O. Bullock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737728429
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A touching story of four Danish children and the traditions of Christmas in Denmark. Along the way, the young boy, Otto, learns a valuable lesson about kindness. This is a fun book for the entire family. Whether you have Danish history and ancestors or you love different cultures, reading this Danish Christmas story will become a family tradition.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737728429
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A touching story of four Danish children and the traditions of Christmas in Denmark. Along the way, the young boy, Otto, learns a valuable lesson about kindness. This is a fun book for the entire family. Whether you have Danish history and ancestors or you love different cultures, reading this Danish Christmas story will become a family tradition.
The Nisse from Timsgaard
Author: Virginia Allen Jensen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780207955471
Category : Fairies
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Recounts the way the elflike nisse helps the farmhand outwit the greedy lord of the manor.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780207955471
Category : Fairies
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Recounts the way the elflike nisse helps the farmhand outwit the greedy lord of the manor.
Winterfrost
Author: Michelle Houts
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763674249
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
An ordinary Danish Christmas turns extraordinary when a family overlooks an important folkloric tradition. Christmas has come, and with it a sparkling white winterfrost over the countryside. But twelve-year-old Bettina’s parents have been called away unexpectedly, leaving her in charge of the house, the farm, and baby Pia. In all the confusion, Bettina’s family neglects to set out the traditional bowl of Christmas rice pudding for the tiny nisse who are rumored to look after the family and their livestock. No one besides her grandfather ever believed the nisse were real, so what harm could there be in forgetting this silly custom? But when baby Pia disappears during a nap, the magic of the nisse makes itself known. To find her sister and set things right, Bettina must venture into the miniature world of these usually helpful, but sometimes mischievous folk. A delightful winter adventure for lovers of the legendary and miraculous.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763674249
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
An ordinary Danish Christmas turns extraordinary when a family overlooks an important folkloric tradition. Christmas has come, and with it a sparkling white winterfrost over the countryside. But twelve-year-old Bettina’s parents have been called away unexpectedly, leaving her in charge of the house, the farm, and baby Pia. In all the confusion, Bettina’s family neglects to set out the traditional bowl of Christmas rice pudding for the tiny nisse who are rumored to look after the family and their livestock. No one besides her grandfather ever believed the nisse were real, so what harm could there be in forgetting this silly custom? But when baby Pia disappears during a nap, the magic of the nisse makes itself known. To find her sister and set things right, Bettina must venture into the miniature world of these usually helpful, but sometimes mischievous folk. A delightful winter adventure for lovers of the legendary and miraculous.
Jacob's Shipwreck
Author: Ruth Nisse
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501708317
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Jewish and Christian authors of the High Middle Ages not infrequently came into dialogue or conflict with each other over traditions drawn from ancient writings outside of the bible. Circulating in Latin and Hebrew adaptations and translations, these included the two independent versions of the Testament of Naphtali in which the patriarch has a vision of the Diaspora, a shipwreck that scatters the twelve tribes. The Christian narrative is linear and ends in salvation; the Jewish narrative is circular and pessimistic. For Ruth Nisse, this is an emblematic text that illuminates relationships between interpretation, translation, and survival. In Nisse’s account, extrabiblical literature encompasses not only the historical works of Flavius Josephus but also, in some of the more ingenious medieval Hebrew imaginative texts, Aesop’s fables and the Aeneid. While Christian-Jewish relations in medieval England and Northern France are most often associated with Christian polemics against Judaism and persecutions of Jews in the wake of the Crusades, the period also saw a growing interest in language study and translation in both communities. These noncanonical texts and their afterlives provided Jews and Christians alike with resources of fiction that they used to reconsider boundaries of doctrine and interpretation. Among the works that Nisse takes as exemplary of this intersection are the Book of Yosippon, a tenth-century Hebrew adaptation of Josephus with a wide circulation and influence in the later middle ages, and the second-century romance of Aseneth about the religious conversion of Joseph’s Egyptian wife. Yosippon gave Jews a new discourse of martyrdom in its narrative of the fall of Jerusalem, and at the same time it offered access to the classical historical models being used by their Christian contemporaries. Aseneth provided its new audience of medieval monks with a way to reimagine the troubling consequences of unwilling Jewish converts.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501708317
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Jewish and Christian authors of the High Middle Ages not infrequently came into dialogue or conflict with each other over traditions drawn from ancient writings outside of the bible. Circulating in Latin and Hebrew adaptations and translations, these included the two independent versions of the Testament of Naphtali in which the patriarch has a vision of the Diaspora, a shipwreck that scatters the twelve tribes. The Christian narrative is linear and ends in salvation; the Jewish narrative is circular and pessimistic. For Ruth Nisse, this is an emblematic text that illuminates relationships between interpretation, translation, and survival. In Nisse’s account, extrabiblical literature encompasses not only the historical works of Flavius Josephus but also, in some of the more ingenious medieval Hebrew imaginative texts, Aesop’s fables and the Aeneid. While Christian-Jewish relations in medieval England and Northern France are most often associated with Christian polemics against Judaism and persecutions of Jews in the wake of the Crusades, the period also saw a growing interest in language study and translation in both communities. These noncanonical texts and their afterlives provided Jews and Christians alike with resources of fiction that they used to reconsider boundaries of doctrine and interpretation. Among the works that Nisse takes as exemplary of this intersection are the Book of Yosippon, a tenth-century Hebrew adaptation of Josephus with a wide circulation and influence in the later middle ages, and the second-century romance of Aseneth about the religious conversion of Joseph’s Egyptian wife. Yosippon gave Jews a new discourse of martyrdom in its narrative of the fall of Jerusalem, and at the same time it offered access to the classical historical models being used by their Christian contemporaries. Aseneth provided its new audience of medieval monks with a way to reimagine the troubling consequences of unwilling Jewish converts.
Escape from Neverland
Author: Nils Visser
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789082322972
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
You don't need time portals, magic wardrobes, rabbit holes or faery dust to experience a profoundly different world...all you need to do is walk into the Wyrde Woods. Chances are that they will appear familiar...we have all been there. That timeless semi-mythical dreamtime of our subconscious inhabited by archetypes where anybody can become the hero, especially those who consider themselves the least worthy. Wendy Twyner is definitely one of those who would consider herself unworthy but when she walks out of the dilapidated council estate where she lives and strolls into the Wyrde Woods -only a few miles away but worlds apart- she finds her perceptions challenged and possibilities for change which fill her with hope for a brighter future. In short: A Dreamtime-Tale with a dark twist set in today's Sussex, England.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789082322972
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
You don't need time portals, magic wardrobes, rabbit holes or faery dust to experience a profoundly different world...all you need to do is walk into the Wyrde Woods. Chances are that they will appear familiar...we have all been there. That timeless semi-mythical dreamtime of our subconscious inhabited by archetypes where anybody can become the hero, especially those who consider themselves the least worthy. Wendy Twyner is definitely one of those who would consider herself unworthy but when she walks out of the dilapidated council estate where she lives and strolls into the Wyrde Woods -only a few miles away but worlds apart- she finds her perceptions challenged and possibilities for change which fill her with hope for a brighter future. In short: A Dreamtime-Tale with a dark twist set in today's Sussex, England.
Will Goes to the Beach
Author: Olof Landström
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 9789129629149
Category : Beaches
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
When Will and his mother go to the beach, they don't let a bit of rain keep them from going swimming.
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 9789129629149
Category : Beaches
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
When Will and his mother go to the beach, they don't let a bit of rain keep them from going swimming.
Scandinavian Christmas
Author: Trine Hahnemann
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN: 1787131955
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
In Scandinavia the whole period of Christmas, from the first Sunday in Advent to New Year's Day, is marked by festivals and celebrated in traditional but beautifully contemporary style. Hygge, the Danish word for cosiness, is about being inside with candles, great comfort food and lots of cakes and sweets. The first week of December is baking week - enough has to be made to last the whole Christmas period. Jars of decorated cookies, gingerbread houses and clogs filled with little presents rub shoulders with simple wreaths, trees and tables decorated with white candles and fresh greenery - the perfect mix of ancient and modern. Brunches, cocktail and tea parties, lunches and dinners are celebrated with a mixture of traditional goodies and delicious modern recipes. Duck and pork rule on Christmas Eve, fish, ham and seasonal vegetables on Christmas Day. Sweets, biscuits, puddings and other treats abound - all washed down with gluwein and fruity cocktails. In this glorious book, illustrated with Lars Ranek's evocative photographs, Trine Hahnemann provides a cornucopia of 70 Christmas recipes - all featuring ingredients which are common to all northern climes - showing us how we, too, can decorate our homes and make delicious dishes to celebrate Christmas the Scandinavian way.
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN: 1787131955
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
In Scandinavia the whole period of Christmas, from the first Sunday in Advent to New Year's Day, is marked by festivals and celebrated in traditional but beautifully contemporary style. Hygge, the Danish word for cosiness, is about being inside with candles, great comfort food and lots of cakes and sweets. The first week of December is baking week - enough has to be made to last the whole Christmas period. Jars of decorated cookies, gingerbread houses and clogs filled with little presents rub shoulders with simple wreaths, trees and tables decorated with white candles and fresh greenery - the perfect mix of ancient and modern. Brunches, cocktail and tea parties, lunches and dinners are celebrated with a mixture of traditional goodies and delicious modern recipes. Duck and pork rule on Christmas Eve, fish, ham and seasonal vegetables on Christmas Day. Sweets, biscuits, puddings and other treats abound - all washed down with gluwein and fruity cocktails. In this glorious book, illustrated with Lars Ranek's evocative photographs, Trine Hahnemann provides a cornucopia of 70 Christmas recipes - all featuring ingredients which are common to all northern climes - showing us how we, too, can decorate our homes and make delicious dishes to celebrate Christmas the Scandinavian way.