Legends of Christ

Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940) was a Swedish writer, the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1909). Selma Lagerlöf is known worldwide as the author of the famous fairy tale book "The Wonderful Adventures of Nils with the Wild Geese." "Legends of Christ" (19094) is a kind and poignant book of tales and legends – a sample of the literary processing of oral traditions of "popular Christianity" that the author heard from her grandmother in childhood, conveying the plots of the biblical New Testament, the lives of saints, and apocrypha that have been preserved in popular memory for centuries. The Nativity and the crimes of King Herod, the flight into Egypt, the childhood of Christ and his adult years, the Way of the Cross and the crucifixion on Golgotha, the Resurrection and the events that followed – these are just a part of what medieval townsfolk and peasants of Scandinavia passed down to their children orally. All the stories told in the book will surely resonate in the soul of every reader with a high spiritual uplift, a striving for goodness, beauty, and justice.