thumb|Fossegrim playing a harp in a waterfall under the statue to the violinist Ole Bull in [[Bergen]] thumb| ("The Stream Man") by Swedish painter Ernst Josephson, 1884 Fossegrim, also known simply as the grim (Norwegian) or Strömkarlen (Swedish), is a water spirit or troll in Scandinavian folklore. He is often depicted as a handsome, nude man playing the fiddle in and . Fossegrim has been associated with a mill spirit (kvernknurr) and is related to the water spirit (nokken) and is sometimes also called näcken in Sweden.
thumb|Fossegrim playing a harp in a waterfall under the statue to the violinist Ole Bull in [[Bergen]] thumb| ("The Stream Man") by Swedish painter Ernst Josephson, 1884 Fossegrim, also known simply as the grim (Norwegian) or Strömkarlen (Swedish), is a water spirit or troll in Scandinavian folklore. He is often depicted as a handsome, nude man playing the fiddle in and . Fossegrim has been associated with a mill spirit (kvernknurr) and is related to the water spirit (nokken) and is sometimes also called näcken in Sweden.
==Description== Fossegrim is described as an exceptionally talented fiddler: the sounds of forest, wind and water play over his fiddle strings. Fossegrims can be induced to teach the skill. The Swedish strömkarl's lay is said to have eleven variations, the final one being reserved for the night spirits because when it is played, "tables and benches, cup and can, gray-beards and grandmothers, blind and lame, even babes in the cradle" will begin to dance.
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