Jul Nisse
Welcome to another adventure from the Thousand Acre Woods deep within Trollheim of the NJ Pine Belt! Tales Chronicled by Jonathan Hulton... That's me! In today's tale, I'm wishing Jul to be over soon...
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I needed a head start on the morning to catch a train. About a few hours in, I was awakened by a little man standing on my chest, wringing my collar, screaming at me. With his one eye bearing down on me, screamed, "Where is my damn porridge!"
"Oh, come back tomorrow when somebody is home; my noggin is empty now."
"I don't want somebody, I want my porridge!" he yelled, slapping me on the head with his stick.
Usually, my nightmares were prettier than this jerk jumping up and down on my chest. Mares are trolls that ride your chest all night, suffocating, and paralyzing you.
"You can share breakfast with me; now let me go back to sleep."
"You take me for some peasant—only paupers eat when they find food!"
It is a Norwegian tradition to feed the Nisse, Saint Nick's friends, during Jul for their work around the house. The day before I noticed my door was painted black, and had to paint it red again. Even though he did more harm than good, he was demanding his wages. Nisse were worse than mummers and their figgy pudding…
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He got me out of bed and began pulling me by the hem of my nightshirt, extending it out from my waist. "Don't worry, I'm not happy to see you."
"Shut up!"
We got down to the kitchen, and I began cooking the Risgrøt. He put on his glasses to supervise.
"Be careful when you're eating; it would be a shame for your glasses to magnify your food and you choke on it."
After he ate his fill of my rice pudding, he complained, "I need to strip down before I dive into the bowl." He put away his glasses and just grunted at me.
"Why?"
"There was so little cinnamon in it, I wanted to dive to the bottom to see if I could find any."
He flipped over his bowl and began searching my cabinets and filling his pockets.
Then I took my teapot off the trivet and poured a cup or two into his pockets.
"What are you doing!"
"Well, I thought you might get thirsty on the way home."
Then I showed him the door until next year...
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We are releasing two new Trollheim collections soon. The first is Trolling About Trollheim filled with the great tales from our Piney Trolls. The next to be followed during Yule at the end of January we will be releasing Gramps' recolections on ancient civilitaions and the dragons that filled their world called...Dragons in Trollheim. They will be available on this website at www.salemhousepress.com, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and your favorite bookseller. Just ask for them by name.. Pick up your copy today, pretty please with sugar on top...
For now you can buy their first collection:
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Following the Harry N. Abrams, Inc. tradition of the series that created Brian Froud's and Alan Lee's Faeries and Gnomes by Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet, we present you with what would have been the next book in the series: Trolls: A Compendium. Trolls—do you think you know what they are? Could you be wrong?
Trolls within Scandinavian lore, myth, saga, fantasy, and folktales are actually anything magical within our northern neighbor's culture. Richly illustrated in this volume are the tales of faeries, dwarves, nissen, huldras, gods, Jotuns, draugar, ghosts, and more. Also, this book introduces our readers to the world of Trollheim, populated by Nattrolls that escaped the 17th-century Swedish colony within the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Narrated by Christopher Jonathan Hulton, who lives in the Thousand Acre Woods just after the Civil War, their tales are filled with Native American lore and tales of their neighbor, the Jersey Devil.
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Hardcover: $65.00
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