@alvathorell yes this is Näcken or Nøkken as he's called in Danish. While some water spirits would in fact lure and kill innocents Nøkken played so beautifully that all who heard his music would stop in their tracks to listen. Birds would pause midflight and come perch on branches; even water, it is said, would slow it's stream around him to hear his wonderful violin.
That's what I read in my books growing up
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@alvathorell yes this is Näcken or Nøkken as he's called in Danish. While some water spirits would in fact lure and kill innocents Nøkken played so beautifully that all who heard his music would stop in their tracks to listen. Birds would pause midflight and come perch on branches; even water, it is said, would slow it's stream around him to hear his wonderful violin.
That's what I read in my books growing up