Legends about Christ

The good and piercing book of fairy tales and legends of Selma Lagerlef is an example of literary processing of the author of the oral traditions of “folk Christianity” heard by the author in childhood, refracting in the charmingly naive tradition and the plots of the biblical New Testament, and the life of the saints, and for centuries stored in the folk memory of apocryths. < Br /> Christmas and flight to Egypt of the Holy Family, the childhood of Christ and his adults, the Cross and Execution on Calvary, the Sunday and the following events are just part of the fact that the medieval citizens and peasants of the Scandinavia (whose artless style of Selma Laigerlef is stylized Very subtly) For centuries, fantasy have been comprehended and colored