TheBergsrå (MountainRå),Bergatrollet (Mountain Troll), orBergakungen (Mountain King) was a mythical creature of the mountain inNorse mythology.
Thebergrå could be either masculine or feminine. It lived in the mountain with a court of relatives and sometimes surrounded bytrolls. It was a common phenomenon in the mythology about thebergsrå to trick people into their dwellings in the mountain and to becomebergtagen (literary: "taken into the mountain"). Thesebergtagnings (Swedish: abduction into the mountain) are usual are done by lone males and their victims tend to be women.[1]
A typical description of such a claimed occurrence was given bySven Andersson in 1691 when he was on trial for having sexual intercourse with a femalebergrå.[2]
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