CURTAIN ON Issue 137 North, Trolls, Yggdrasil

CURTAIN ON Issue 137 North, Trolls, Yggdrasil You have to dive deep, penetrate the darkness, if you want to know the water of wisdom.             Where is north?  Who are the trolls?  How many roots does the world ash tree Yggdrasil have?             While our almost-everything-know-it-alls Philippa and Emil trace the earth's magnetic currents and relive the prehistoric times of the Germanic peoples and Vikings, countless natural creatures troll their way through our sagas and legends: small, clever trolls who hide our key ring, medium-sized trolls who give us rich presents, for the gift to be taken away immediately if we misbehave; and the really big ones, the giants, whose sense of time makes us laugh.             Mountains, lakes and small islands, blueberries, brown bears, cloudberries.  Wild geese, reindeer and moose diving.  Lucia songs, Yuletide and saffron rolls.   In the children's report from Lapland, Anouk sees the northern lights and Linus takes a taxi to school.  A star and light game in the middle of the booklet invites you to experience the winter time in a contemplative and joyful way.  In a great northern story, Stina and Gunnar go on dangerous adventures.             The parent offers a clear summary of Nordic mythology: The creation of the world in the Edda differs so clearly in its images from the depictions of the Bible that it is a spiritual challenge to compare the meaning.   2000 years later we meet the grande dame of the word in the north: the women's rights activist and Nobel Prize winner for literature Selma Lagerlöf.             Curtain up on the nature, the puzzles, the role models, the culture and the surprises of Northern Europe.