Bergsrå

The Bergsrå (Mountain Rå), Bergatrollet (Mountain Troll), or Bergakungen (Mountain King) was a mythical creature of the mountain in Norse mythology.

The bergrå could be either masculine or feminine. It lived in the mountain with a court of relatives and sometimes surrounded by trolls. It was a common phenomenon in the mythology about the bergsrå to trick people into their dwellings in the mountain and to become bergtagen (literary: "taken into the mountain").

A typical description of such a claimed occurrence was given by Sven Andersson in 1691 when he was on trial for having sexual intercourse with a female bergrå.^[1]

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^ Grimberg, Carl; Åberg, Alf (1960). Svenska folkets underbara öden. 4, 1660–1707. Stockholm. SELIBR 8074835.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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Ake Hultkrantz Editor (1961) The Supernatural Owners Of Nature Nordic Symposion on The Religious Conceptions of Ruling Spirits (Genii loci, genii speciei) and Allied Concepts (Almquist & Wiksell) ^{[ISBN missing]}

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[1] Grimberg, Carl; Åberg, Alf (1960). Svenska folkets underbara öden. 4, 1660–1707. Stockholm. SELIBR 8074835.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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Beings	Askafroa Bäckahäst Bergsrå Bøyg Bysen Changeling Church grim Deildegast Draugr Dwarf Elf Erlking Fossegrim Gjenganger Helhest Hulder Kraken Mara Marmennill Myling Nisse Nis Puk Neck Rå Selma Sjörå Skrømt Skogsrå Troll Troll cat Valravn Vardøger Vargr Vættir Vǫrðr Will-o'-the-wisp Ysätters-Kajsa
People	Askeladden Blenda Disa Påskkärring
Origins	Norse mythology Old Norse religion
See also	Danish folklore

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