Hi Steve! We are happy to hear that 🎅 wish you a very Merry Christmas 🌟

@@TineGruppa Thank you. Merry Christmas

Still have our Nisse, but really miss seeing Gard Eidsvold's version. Be great if he returned. The quintessential Nisse.

A nisse* That nissen Those nissene A lot of nisser

totally agree, we debated this when we added a new Jul mug to store. so we provided an English equivalent title but emphasise proper name in the description

Ah yes, sadly Nissen that lived in our barn, or what it’s called has moved away, we figured this out when the grøt didn’t disappear for a few years

Lol now I gotta look him up! Lol

I'm 2 years late to the party, but I would just like to add that, Nissen or rather the Fjøsnisse/Fjøsnissen, which is the correct term for this ''creature'' just to differentiate from Santaclause or ''JuleNISSEN'' which he is called in Norwegian. There are many forms of ''Nisse'' in Norwegian folklore, and they are a subgroup and/or ''cousin'' group of ''De underjordiske and/or Hulderfolket'', while not directly cathegorized as neither of those, nor are they part of any Troll family, but they are certaintly ''distant related'' in one form or another. Another group of ''Nisse'' is the Skogsnisse, which is translated to ''Forestnisse'', and they live in the woods amongst the other ''underworld'' folklore creatures that lives under the ground, in the mountains, in the trees or in the lakes. Skogsnissen and Norwegian folklore Elves are most likely the same ''creature'' but just with different names, the Vikings called them ''Alvar'', which means Elves. Most of the ''De underjordiske'' and ''Hulderfolket'' are often benevolent, but may turn malevolent if displeased in any way. Some are often malevolent by nature, and according to folklore try to trick people into captivity, harm, or even death. Like Huldra, Nøkken and most Trolls are generally known to be creatures you don't want to cross in the Norwegian wilderness according to the folklore. (This also applies to Draugen, but he is not classified as any of these, he's just an undead sea creature from folklore.) Anyhow, the point I want to end this with is that, all if not most of these creatures, which also applies to Fjøsnissen, is that they are embodied ''forest spirits'' that people back in the days wanted to appease in hopes that it would bring them good luck and good health, believing that doing these ''forest spirits'' wrong would instead bring them curses and bad luck. Fjøsnissen for instant, if you kept him happy, he would overlook your livestock and make sure that your farm animals were happy and in good health, failing to keep the Fjøsnisse happy, they believed he would instead bring sickness and death to the livestock.

Have you ever met nissen? 😉

@@TineGruppa I've never met nissen myself, but I think I might have seen a huldra - though what she was doing in Colorado, I can't imagine.

I suppose even Nisse can emotionally evolve. I know over the years I've had personal growth and softening heart.

What’s nissen about? I’m not from Norway but I’m curious 😊

@@SitahTaylorsversion they're a little nisse whom you feed rice porridge with cinnamon, sugar and butter

@@SitahTaylorsversion and you better feed that guy, or they will fuck you up

@@ThorGJack ohh haha okayy!! Thanks for explaining

@@SitahTaylorsversion they are kinda like guardians over the home and farmstead. We have kept the belief in them since early medieval times. They are really moody, can go from the world's happiest to murderous in a blink of an eye. So people give them rice porridge around Christmas to keep him content. In some stories he has killed farm animals and hurt the people living in the house, like beating a cow to death because he didn't get any butter on top. Do all that is expected properly and don't be lazy, and nothing bad will happen to you. That is also why here in Norway, if you try to run from your problems, they say you will get "nissen med på lasset" (the nisse with in the luggage) as your problems will only follow you until you fix them.

Because he didn't get butter and cinnamon on the porridge that was set out for him.

Yes we do!

The actor is Gard B. Eidsvold😊

Nissen*

​@@larsvab3690 My family line is German, so Kobold. But Gledelig Jul to you and yours. 🎄❄❄

You need to move closer to the earth, or bring plants, trees or nature to your condo first…🧚‍♂️

"Fjøsnissen" = Barn Elf. We had to wait 3 generations until we returned to being on the farm before our Nisse caught up with us.

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