"We fjoesnisse folk have a saying. 'Pet the hen, we fetch the nøøse.'"
Posted on 11/25/2003 12:29:45 PM PST by PeteFromMontana
Santa's helper throttles teen
An outing to a shopping center ended with a shock for 13-year-old Joakim Osland. A fjoesnisse, a kind of elf that traditionally occupies barns and wears a red cap associated with Christmas and Santa Claus, became frighteningly furious when Joakim tried to pet his hen, newspaper Firda reports.
This is a more traditional view of the fjøsnisse, who tends to spread Christmas cheer from a barnyard setting, and the visual connections to Santa are clear. PHOTO: TOR JARILD
Osland and two friends were at the shopping center over the weekend and went to see the fjoesnisse hired in to entertain customers. The nisse in question was standing with a wagon containing a little pig and a hen.
"I was a little curious. The hen didn't look like a normal hen," Joakim said. "She looked incredibly soft. I tried to pet her but she was so quick that she hopped away."
This seemed to drive the 'elf' berserk.
"He came up behind me and shouted at me. I didn't think elves did that kind of thing," Osland told the newspaper. "He grabbed me, first with one hand, then the other, so that he was strangling me. He said I should respect animals. The elf scared me a bit."
Joakim and his friends, Soelvi Hestvik, 15, and Rune Kristiansen, 15, thought the elf overreacted. After the throttling Joakim was red-faced, and had marks on his throat, they said.
"I was unlucky and grabbed (the hen) too hard, but I wasn't trying to hurt it. I love animals. I am used to having a cat, dog and parrot," Joakim said.
"Even so, a grown man shouldn't attack a 13-year-old," Soelvi said.
Don't tell me I just typed that! Boo Hiss
"We fjoesnisse folk have a saying. 'Pet the hen, we fetch the nøøse.'"
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Bad Elf.
Must work for Bad Santa.
See the løveli lakes
The wøndërful telephøne system
And mäni interesting furry animals
Including the majestik møøse
A Møøse once bit my sister...
No realli! She was Karving her initials øn the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law -an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"...
We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.
Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...
We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.
"I was unlucky and grabbed (the hen) too hard, but I wasn't trying to hurt it. I love animals. I am used to having a cat, dog and parrot," Joakim said
OK, lock 'em up. His stories conflict. No TV or chicken choking for 8 years! $5,000.00 fine. That'll jam the Christmas spirit back into the kid!! Bah Humbug!!!
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For norwegians like me, Santa is a "nisse"- something more equivalent to a gnome (although he is obviously human sized, unlike other creatures of his kind). This is of course also a case of the Santa Claus legend being mixed with much older local folklore and mythology, just in a different culture than the "international Santa. Other "nisser" are mythological underworld figures, basically your average gnomes exept usually depicted wearing red wooly hats just like Santa. Some people still leave food out for the "fjoesnisse"- a gnome living in the barn or shed with the farm animals- on christmas eve. If this farm gnome does not get his porridge, the animals will get ill and die; your basic underworld protection racket. So if Santa is a Nisse, his close relatives are certainly somewhat chaotic ;-)--
Aamund Breivik
So obviously, messing with the fjoesnisse's hen, without offering some porridge, is a huge mistake... ;)
Leave Li'lAbner out of this.
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