About the book: 2015 / The second book about fairy tales continues the theme raised in "Scary German Tales": who were the fairy-tale monsters really? Fairy tales from Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland underwent literary processing and lost the features of ancient horror. Nevertheless, very colorful characters live and act in them. Is the fairytale troll a relative of the mountain and forest giants, or should one look for his family nest in burial mounds and the depths of the sea? Who in the old days held night dances in underground chambers? Why did the Snow Queen need two mirrors? Who inhabits the Scandinavian swamps and what creature’s appearance appears through the fog spreading over the water? The search for answers to these questions is accompanied by excursions into the pathetic world of Old Scandinavian prose and poetry and into the curious world of folk legends and anecdotes..