Regional & Specialised Indexes
← All regional & specialised indexes
Af Klintberg’s Swedish Folk Legend Types
Bengt af Klintberg’s The Types of the Swedish Folk Legend catalogues traditional legend plots from Swedish-language material, including Swedish-speaking parts of Finland.
“Swedish” here describes the catalogue’s language and corpus. It should not be used to infer the ethnicity or national origin of every story or teller.
Scope and reference practice
Sweden & Swedish-speaking Finland · Legend types. The notes on recording evidence are editorial guidance for future use on this website.
| Reference | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Coverage | The catalogue draws on archival and printed traditions, chiefly reflecting the rural society of earlier centuries. |
| Legend plots | It organises recurring plots associated with supernatural beliefs, local history and other legend subjects. |
| Related indexes | It complements Christiansen’s ML catalogue. Where a correspondence is proposed, retain the identifiers from both works and check their scope. |
Using this reference
Consult the relevant entry and its documentation before making a match. Contemporary legends, loosely structured accounts and personal experiences need separate consideration rather than forced placement in an older plot category.
The links below identify the published reference or its official catalogue. This page provides an introduction; it does not reproduce the full index or assign classifications to narratives.
Each heading has a stable link for citation and future cross-referencing. Narrative associations will follow later analysis.
Sources and further reading
Af Klintberg, Bengt. The Types of the Swedish Folk Legend. FF Communications 300. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2010. The current publisher lists the work as 2011, with a second printing in 2025; cite the date of the edition actually used.
- Folklore Fellows: current publisher’s description and printing details
- ETH Library: original title page dated 2010 (PDF)
The explanations are concise editorial summaries. Published identifiers are distinguished from this page’s reference headings and suggested recording practices.
If you wish to get access to data for projects and research, then please contact us, we do our best to help
How to cite: Fielder-White, Jonathan (2026). The Folklore Database. https://folkloredatabase.com
0009-0006-1672-4451
Please cite the relevant sources, catalogues, and classification systems, including the Folklore Database, Berezkin-Duvakin Catalogue, ATU, Thompson, alongside the page accessed and the last time accessed. Please respect copyright and licenses.
Editorial annotations and database enhancements © Jonathan Fielder-White licensed under CC BY 4.0. Berezkin-Duvakin derived narrative and metadata licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Full rights information can be found here.
All rights are reserved in the database structure, selection, arrangement, metadata, classifications, software, interface design, and original editorial content.
Important: The Folklore Database expressly reserves all rights in relation to text and data mining, automated extraction, scraping, machine learning, dataset creation, and the training, development, validation, or improvement of artificial intelligence technologies or systems. No part of this website or database may be scraped, copied, reproduced, harvested, downloaded in bulk, or otherwise used for AI training or commercial data extraction without prior written permission.
Designed and Developed by Jonathan Fielder-White.
© 2024–2026 Crecganford / Jonathan Fielder-White. All rights reserved.