Northern mythology

NORTH GERMAN POPULAR TRADITIONS.
11.
MEKLENBURG, THE MARK, SAXONY,
THURINGIA, BRUNSWICK, HANOVER,
OLDENBURG, WESTPHALIA^
FRU GODE.
In the twelve days of Christmas Fru Gode makes her
tour, and has been met by many a one. As a man was
once busy with his horses in the stable, Fru Gode came,
and handing him a stake, requested him to make a point
to it. At first he refused, but, on her promising him a
good reward, did what she required.
When it was finished,
she told him to gather up the chips that had fallen, which
he did, and found them all pure gold.
Formerly much was related of Fru Gode, how she rode
through the air with her dogs. When she had one day
passed over a farm-yard, the farmer happening to go out,
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From Kuhn and Schwartz, Norddeutsche Sagen, Marchen u. Gebrjiuche.
Leipsig, 1848, unless otherwise expressed.
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