The seven fathers of the house - an old Norwegian tale

Vincent van Gogh - Farmhouse, 1885/źródłó: https://commons.wikimedia.org

I,'ve recently come across a very strange Norwegian tale. It was first published in Norway in the 1840s in a collection of folk tales collected by Asbjornsen and Moe. The tale can be read as a metaphor of human life. Listen to a story...