Nils Holgersson's Journey Across Sweden Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
children's fantasy novel by Selma Lagerlöf
About Nils Holgersson's Journey Across Sweden
Nils Holgersson is a boy of 14 years of age who lives on a farm inVästra Vemmenhög,Scaniaon the southern tip of Sweden. His "chief delight was to eat and sleep, and after that he liked best to make mischief", and he is a menace to the animals of the farm. One day when Nils is home alone, supposed to be learning bible passages while his family is in church, he captures atomte(~gnome). The tomte offers Nils a gold coin if he is liberated but the mean boy refuses his offer. To punish him the tomte curses the farm and casts a spell on Nils turning him into atomteas well. This shrinks Nils in size, but gives him the ability to talk to animals. As this is happening one of the tame geese of the farm,Mårten, plans to escape the farm in order to join the northern wild geese, led byAkkaon their annu
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