Forthcoming: The Draug

I have written before about the draug: a waterborne, vengeful (or perhaps simply resentful) creature of folklore, a revenant of the sea dead, forever denied lying at rest in consecrated ground.

The book is now ready for editing: first by me, then by someone else. And then I shall publish it (paperback and ebook). Stay tuned!

Table of Contents

1. Andreas Faye: Norske folke-sagn, 1844
   • The Draug
2. Peter Christen Asbjørnsen: Norske Huldreeventyr og Folkesagn, vol. I, 1859
   • The Tufte-folk on Sandflæsa
3. Jonas Lie: Den fremsyndte, eller billeder fra Nordland, 1870
   • Elias and the Draug
4. Ole Tobias Olsen: Norske folkeeventyr og sagn samlet i Nordland, 1870
   • The Draug Warns Nils Jamtli
   • The Draug Looses the Boat
   • The Draug Warns of the Skipper’s Death
   • The Draug as Beating Stone
   • The Draug Looses the Jekt
   • Kristensen Husby Strives Against the Draug
   • The Draugs’ Battle Against the Dead on Lurøy
5. Olaus Martens Nicolaissen: Sagn og eventyr fra Nordland, 1879
   • The Sea Draug 1879
   • The Draug and the Fisher–Farmer
   • The Parson and the Draug
   • The Draug on the Church Road
   • The Draug and the Servant Boy
6. Jonas Lie: Trold, et tylfte eventyr, 1890
   • Jo in the Sea Holms
7. Theodor Kittelsen: Troldskab, 1892
   • The Draug
8. Regine Normann: Eventyr, and Nye Eventyr, 1925/6
   • Power Against Power
   • The Red Castle on the Golden Mountain in the North-West Sea
9. Knut Strompdal: Gamalt frå Helgeland, vols. I and III, 1928/39
   • Hans the Trondheimer
   • Johan at Kvitnes and the Draug
   • Pe Johannesso and the Draug
   • The Kelp Stone Was a Draug
   • Mekal Pålso and the Draug
   • The Draug Avoids the Filth
   • The Draug Holds the Jekt
   • The Draug on the Way to Lofoten
   • The Wife of the Draug in Her Confinement
   • The Draug at Varholmen
   • His Feet Were Freezing
   • The Draug Was Lent an Axe
   • The Pejord Horse and the Draug
   • The Draug in the Millhouse
   • Evert Laukholm and the Draug
   • The Draug Came in Oil Skins and Sea Boots
   • Draug Pinch
   • The Draug on the Reef
   • The Draug Given a Lift
10. Dagmar Blix: Draugen skreik, 1965
    • The Draug
    • When the Jekt Aurora Capsized