huldre
noun
one of a race of sirens, living in the woods, seductive but dangerous.
hulder
-
a variation of
huldre.
Example Sentences
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"I am Marit, mother's young one, father's fiddle, the hulder of the house, granddaughter to Ola Nordistuen of the Heidegards, four years old in the autumn, two days after the frost nights—I am!"
From A Happy Boy by Rasmus Björn Anderson
The one that had to be played quietly, with the bow moving lightly over the strings, was the hulder in yonder fog, calling together her cattle, where no one but herself could see.
From In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I Christmas Tales from 'Round the World by Harrison S. (Harrison Smith) Morris
