"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.
"The Dreamers," by Dinesen, in Seven.....
