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• ‘‘Bjergtagen,’’ or, in English, ‘‘Bewitched,’’ by Meir Goldschmidt, a nineteenth-century Danish storyteller, makes use of the ancient folk-motif of the mortal woman seduced by a supernatural lover, a troll. Dinesen’s story ‘‘The Ring’’ makes oblique reference to the motif and perhaps also to Goldschmidt’s story, which is available in a number of translations in anthologies of Danish literature.
• ‘‘On Mottoes of My Life,’’ by Dinesen, in Daguerreotypes and Other Essays (1979), a book of essays, is a concise summation of her world view.
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