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\"Schiltberger_Lindwurm_vnd_einhiren\"<\/a>

An illustration of the Lindworm doing battle, circa 1477.<\/p><\/div>\n

Last night, as part of the Norwegian-American Literary Festival, four Norwegian writers\u2014Gunnhild \u00d8yehaug,\u00a0Lars Petter Sveen,\u00a0Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, and\u00a0Carl Frode Tiller\u2014<\/strong>spoke at New York\u2019s 192 Books. James Wood, who moderated, asked them to address the question of perceived Norwegian literary tropes like solitude and loneliness. Sveen pointed out another: the shared cultural knowledge of fairy tales.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course, you\u2019ll find solitude and loneliness there, too. Norwegian fairy tales are, even by the genre\u2019s grim standards, dark, thematically and often literally, too (e.g. \u201cEast of the Sun, West of the Moon\u201d). For an American audience, accustomed to tall tales that focus on the heroic, and devils who rarely do anything worse than argue with sharp-witted Yankee lawyers, Norway\u2019s fairy tales are downright scary.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Lindworm\u201d\u2014also translated, when it is, as \u201cThe Lindworm Prince\u201d\u2014is a story with variations across Scandinavia. The version anthologized in the seminal Asbjornsen and Moe collection goes thus:\u00a0<\/p>\n

A good king and his lovely queen long for a child. One day the queen goes out walking and runs across a crone\u2014a benign sorceress who instructs the queen to place a two-handled chalice in the corner of her garden. Come morning, she will find two roses, red and white. Should she eat the red rose, she will give birth to a prince, while the white will guarantee a princess. But the witch is clear in her warning: under no circumstances must the queen eat both!<\/p>\n

Well, you can guess what happens. In the tradition of such things, the queen is overcome with greed, and finding the white rose to her taste, devours the red, too. When her time comes, the queen is delivered of an heir \u2026 but also\u2014and, importantly, first\u2014a serpent-like monster. This lindworm slithers away, and the panicked queen convinces herself the horror was a figment of her imagination\u2014and says nothing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Time goes by, and the prince comes to manhood, growing handsome, brave, and wise. In due course, he decides to seek a suitable bride, but no sooner has he started his quest when his path is blocked by a monstrous lindworm, who hisses the menacing oath,\u00a0\u201cA bride for me before a bride for you!\u201d<\/p>\n

The prince rides on, but at each crossroads, the same thing happens. \u201cA bride for me before a bride for you!\u201d Fearful and confused, the prince confronts the queen, who confesses to her secret. The lindworm, as the elder twin, is entitled to the first marriage. And so, in order to dispatch the obstacle, the king sends messengers far and wide in search of a princess for their son. The poor bride, ignorant of her bridegroom\u2019s identity, is imported, and duly married to the monster. Come morning, she is gone; the lindworm has eaten her.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The prince sets out once again; once again his path is blocked by his brother. \u201cA bride for me before a bride for you!\u201d cries the lindworm. Once more, the king sends for a far-off bride; once more, she meets her end on the wedding night.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lacking for willing princesses, the king now turns to his own kingdom. Coming across a poor shepherd, he orders the man to give up his own daughter as a bride to the serpent prince. With heavy heart, the shepherd delivers the news to his beautiful, clever daughter, who is terrified. Wandering in the woods, she encounters the good witch who first prophesied the queen\u2019s pregnancy. And much as before, she tenders mysterious advice.<\/p>\n

Marry the lindworm, she instructs, but here is your price:\u00a0ten white dresses, a tub of lye, one of milk, and a vast array of whips. Come the wedding night, here is what you do: order the groom to shed\u00a0his skin. Then another, and another, until all the skins are shed. At which point, she is to whip him soundly with a lye-soaked lash, bathe him in milk, and embrace him.<\/p>\n

All goes according to plan. When the monster has shed his last skin, the bride finds before her a handsome prince. In the morning, the apprehensive court opens the door of the bedchamber to find the pair sleeping in each other\u2019s arms. There is great rejoicing, another wedding is held, and the two live happily ever after.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(That was a slightly abbreviated version; more details\u2014which is to say, translation\u2014may be found here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

It is foolish to make sweeping generalizations about a people, a literary culture, or a national psyche. I will not try to, except to say that, here we have no such stories. And I would wager that\u2014however bronzed, sociable, and jolly we may seem\u2014we are the poorer for it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0Sadie Stein is contributing editor of <\/em>The Paris Review, and the <\/em>Daily\u2019s correspondent.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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