A Mini on Merfolk
According to Legends and Superstitions of the Sea, and of Sailors in All Lands and at All Times by Fletcher S Bassett (1885) p. 178, there were many Danish legends about "sea-people" who were often seen "on the strand" with their children. Which would mean on the shore. One tale recounts a "merwife" was captured while "grazing her cattle". The retaliation for which was the town being "covered" in sand. Another tale speaks of a "merman" who "enticed a maiden to the bottom of the sea" where she raised many children. She later abandoned him, failing to keep a promise after returning…