And do you recollect when we came to Vittskövle, a girl told us that she had seen a Goa-Nisse with wooden shoes, who flew away on the back of a goose?
A Goa-Nisse is an elf-king, and corresponds to the English Puck or Robin Goodfellow.
Some well-informed persons maintain that this spiritus navalis, or nautical goblin, proves himself of kindred race with the house or land Nisse by his roguish pranks.
The Nisse of the Scandinavian nations is, in many respects, the counterpart of the Scottish Brownie, while, in others, he occasionally resembles the Devonian and Cornish Pixie and Portune.
I heard my Freda say: 'I see a nisse coming down the track of the moon.
Oh, Hans, why would a Nisse take my darling kittens?
In fact, I don't believe there is such a thing as a Nisse anyway.
Soon Greta fell asleep, and all night long she dreamed that a little Nisse was sitting on the foot of her bed, saying, "Greta, do you really want your kittens back again?
Hans, do you think that a Nisse really did take my kittens away?
Well, if you do something to make a Nisse angry at you, he is bound to punish you in some way.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nisse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
