{"id":1467,"date":"2023-11-06T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2025-11-06T19:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:44:19","slug":"halddit-gufhtarat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/halddit-gufhtarat\/","title":{"rendered":"H\u00e1lddit \/ gufhtarat"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Sami folklore, h\u00e1ldi (plural: h\u00e1lddit) are various guardian spirits that live underground, in mountains and mounds, and also in the sea. If the h\u00e1lddit were treated with respect, they were helpers, but if they were treated badly, they would punish you. H\u00e1ldi could also take in both children and adults, and they sometimes took children from their mothers' wombs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

H\u00e1lddit is also referred to as underground, but according to Ole Thommasen in The relationship of the patches<\/em> the term is not correct. The H\u00e1lddit are supposed to live on earth, and have their uses and things, like we do, such as farms, churches, cattle and so on, but they cannot be seen with our eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An ancient tradition, which is still practised by some, was to always check for peace and quiet when travelling to new places. If you couldn't sleep or felt any other disturbance in the place, it meant that subterraneans were already living there. This was a common practice if you were re-erecting a new range, tent, house or barn somewhere. If you feel uneasy, you have to find somewhere else, otherwise you won't have peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

H\u00e1lddit takes children<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

When a woman is carrying a child, the eldritch began to keep an eye on her. There were therefore many things a pregnant woman should not do. Ole Thommasen describes it this way in Lappenes forhold:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For that reason, such a woman should never walk alone in the forest, and in the dark. Never lie down to sleep out in the field, nor sleep alone even in her own house, especially when the time of childbirth began to approach; for then subterraneans could take the opportunity to cut open the woman's abdomen and take the foetus. Under such circumstances the woman is overwhelmed with sleep, and yet this is done, so that when she wakes up, she feels separated from the foetus and on examination of her abdomen she sees only a fine scar, but everything is healed, so that she feels fresh and healthy as before she was fertile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People taken by h\u00e1lddit are not allowed to eat the food they offer you. If you endure hunger for 2-3 days, and don't enjoy anything from them, you will be allowed to return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stories about h\u00e1lddit:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A girl serves at the h\u00e1ldekone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current links<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

When the underground has the last word, Setnordfra<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Sea Sami, Anders Larsen, National Library of Norway<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fairy tales and legends about h\u00e1lddit in Sami stories, National Library of Norway<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I samisk folketro er h\u00e1ldi (flertall: h\u00e1lddit) ulike skyts\u00e5nder som bor under jorda, i fjell og hauger, og ogs\u00e5 i sj\u00f8en. Dersom h\u00e1lddit ble behandlet med respekt var de hjelpere, men dersom de ble behandlet d\u00e5rlig ville de straffe deg. H\u00e1ldi kunne ogs\u00e5 ta til seg b\u00e5de barn og voksne, og det hendte at de … Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fortellinger-sagn-og-myter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1468,"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/1468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}