ISBN:
9781452964706
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (345 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Print version Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe
DDC:
398.20948099999998
Keywords:
Folklore--Norway
;
Tales--Norway
;
Folk literature, Norwegian
;
Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Translator's Note -- About Ash Lad, Who Stole the Troll's Silver Ducks, Coverlet, and Golden Harp -- The Gjertrud Bird -- The Griffin -- The Quandary -- Richman Peddler Per -- Ash Lad, Who Competed with the Troll -- About the Boy Who Went to the North Wind and Demanded the Flour Back -- The Vigin Mary As Godmother -- The Three Princesses in White Land -- Some Women Are Like That -- Everyone Thinks Their Own Children Are Best -- A Tale of Courtship -- The Three Aunts -- The Widow's Son -- The Husband's Daughter and the Wife's Daughter -- The Rooster and the Hen in the Nut Forest -- The Bear and the Fox -- Why the Bear Has a Stump of a Tail -- The Fox Cheats the Bear Out of His Christmas Meal -- Gudbrand Slope -- Kari Stave-Skirt -- The Fox As Shepherd -- The Blacksmith They Didn't Dare Let into Hell -- The Rooster and the Hen -- The Rooster, the Cuckoo and the Black Grouse -- Lillekort -- The Doll in the Grass -- Paal Next-Door -- Soria Moria Castle -- Ser Per -- Little Aase Goosegirl -- The Boy and the Devil -- The Seven Foals -- Gidske -- The Twelve Wild Ducks -- The Master Thief -- The Three Sisters Who Were Taken into the Mountain -- About the Giant Troll Who Never Carried His Heart with Him -- Dappleband -- Nothing Is Needed by the One All Women Love -- Ash Lad, Who Got the Princess to Say He Was Lying -- The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Who Were Supposed to Go to the Mountain Pasture to Fatten Up -- East of the Sun and West of the Moon -- The Hen Who Had to Go to Dovre Mountain or Else the Whole World Would Perish -- The Man Who Had to Keep House -- Tom Thumb -- Haaken Speckled-Beard -- Master Maiden -- Well Done and Poorly Rewarded -- True and Untrue -- Per and Paal and Esben Ash Lad -- The Mill That Keeps Grinding at the Bottom of the Sea -- The Maiden on the Glass Mountain -- Butterball
Description / Table of Contents:
Big Per and Little Per -- Ragged Cap -- The Bushy Bride -- The Tabby Cat on Dovre Mountain -- Farmer Weather-Beard -- The Blue Ribbon -- The Honest Four-Skilling Coin -- The Old Man of the House -- Foreword to the Second Norwegian Edition -- From the Introduction to the Second Norwegian Edition -- Foreword to the Third Norwegian Edition -- Foreword to the Fourth Norwegian Edition -- Notes on the Regional Collection Sites of the Tales
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