Hi, I remember that you told the story about this specific bridge when you worked there as a diplomat when you and Jonathan had a conversation over on his channel Silicon Curtain.
(I didn’t know however that the Norwegian folklore about “The 3 Bruse goats” was so well known internationally, it for some reason made me feel happy. Coming from the Nordic countries/Scandinavia sometimes feels like coming from nowhere at all.)
Not to forget the great Henrik Ibsen too! The way serious way in which Ibsen used trolls to represent the unconscious rebelling against the conscious in the Norwegian mind was really important to me. It allowed me to see that the troll in Asbjørnson and Moe’s folktale can be connected to the personified thoughts of Carl Jung. This in turn allowed me to understand trolls as energy connecting them to other such phenomena in Indo-European culture, like sprites, dæmons, færies, pixies, giants, elves, dwarves, all intermediaries between gods, and between our conforming social conventional selves and other. Then it was a short step to understand how Ruschia uses folktale-like characters such as Little Green Men or Polite Folk or the Chef (of Disinfolklore (Prighozin)) to troll us into accepting the abnormal as conventional. Thank you 🇳🇴
Hi, I remember that you told the story about this specific bridge when you worked there as a diplomat when you and Jonathan had a conversation over on his channel Silicon Curtain.
(I didn’t know however that the Norwegian folklore about “The 3 Bruse goats” was so well known internationally, it for some reason made me feel happy. Coming from the Nordic countries/Scandinavia sometimes feels like coming from nowhere at all.)
Thank you for sharing all you do.
Kindly, Grace 🩰
Not to forget the great Henrik Ibsen too! The way serious way in which Ibsen used trolls to represent the unconscious rebelling against the conscious in the Norwegian mind was really important to me. It allowed me to see that the troll in Asbjørnson and Moe’s folktale can be connected to the personified thoughts of Carl Jung. This in turn allowed me to understand trolls as energy connecting them to other such phenomena in Indo-European culture, like sprites, dæmons, færies, pixies, giants, elves, dwarves, all intermediaries between gods, and between our conforming social conventional selves and other. Then it was a short step to understand how Ruschia uses folktale-like characters such as Little Green Men or Polite Folk or the Chef (of Disinfolklore (Prighozin)) to troll us into accepting the abnormal as conventional. Thank you 🇳🇴