Icelandic Fairy Tales

About this eBook

Author

Hall, Angus W., Mrs.

Original Publication

United Kingdom: Frederick Warne & Co.,1897.

Credits

Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

Fairy tales -- Iceland

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 67085

Release Date

January 2, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Preface
3. 3.Contents
4. 4.List of Illustrations
5. 5.Icelandic Fairy Tales
6. 6.The Legend of the King’s Three Sons
7. 7.Helga
8. 8.Thorstein — CHAPTER I. — HOW THORSTEIN LOST HIS KINGDOM. — CHAPTER II. — HIS ARRIVAL AT THE GIANT’S CASTLE. — CHAPTER III. — THE MYSTERY OF THE LOCKED ROOM. — CHAPTER IV. — HOW THORSTEIN’S KIND ACTIONS RECEIVED THEIR REWARD.
9. 9.Sigurd — CHAPTER I. — SIGURD FINDS A FRIEND IN HIS STEPMOTHER. — CHAPTER II. — HE WRESTLES WITH THE GIANT SISTERS. — CHAPTER III. — HIS MEETING WITH HELGA. — CHAPTER IV. — HIS ESCAPE ON THE WONDERFUL HORSE GULLFAXI.
10. 10.Lineik and Laufey
11. 11.The Five Brothers
12. 12.Hermod and Hadvör
13. 13.Ingebjörg
14. 14.Hans — CHAPTER I. — HANS STARTS ON HIS TRAVELS. — CHAPTER II. — HIS WONDERFUL ADVENTURES, AND HOW HE RETURNED GOOD FOR EVIL.
15. 15.The Giantess and the Granite Boat
16. 16.Greybeard — CHAPTER I. — THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF GEIR. — CHAPTER II. — HOW GREYBEARD OUTWITTED THE KING AND WON PRINCESS SIGRID.
17. 17.Litill, Tritill, the Birds, and the Peasant Lad
18. 18.Laughing Ingibjörg — CHAPTER I. — THORWALD AND INGIBJÖRG ARE CRUELLY TREATED BY THEIR STEPMOTHER, WHO TRIES TO GET RID OF THEM. — CHAPTER II. — HOW THORWALD AND INGIBJÖRG FOUND THEMSELVES AT THE WITCH’S ISLAND, AND WHAT THEY DID. — CHAPTER III. — THEIR FURTHER ADVENTURES AND ESCAPE. — CHAPTER IV. — THE KING’S RETURN, AND QUEEN GUDA’S RELEASE FROM THE WITCH’S THRALL.
19. 19.The Three Peasant Maidens — CHAPTER I. — HOW QUEEN HERTHA FELL FROM HER HIGH ESTATE. — CHAPTER II. — WHAT HAD BEFALLEN THE TWO LITTLE PRINCES AND THEIR SISTER. — CHAPTER III. — OLGA’S COURAGE RESCUES HER BROTHERS, QUEEN HERTHA IS RESTORED TO HER HUSBAND, AND THE PARENTS RECOVER THEIR CHILDREN.
20. 20.The Fair and the Dark Isolde — CHAPTER I. — DEATH OF THE QUEEN. THE KING REMARRIES, AND PROCEEDS ON A TOUR THROUGH HIS KINGDOM. — CHAPTER II. — WHAT BEFALLS “FAIR ISOLDE” AFTER HER FATHER HAS GONE. — CHAPTER III. — “FAIR ISOLDE” ESCAPES, AND DISGUISES HERSELF. — CHAPTER IV. — FERTRAM FALLS UNDER A SPELL, AND IS BETROTHED TO “DARK ISOLDE.” — CHAPTER V. — THE SPELL IS BROKEN, AND THE WICKED QUEEN’S DESIGNS ARE FRUSTRATED.
21. 21.Prince Hlini
22. 22.Fertram and Hildur
23. 23.New Illustrated Fairy Tales.
24. 24.Colophon — Availability — Metadata — Revision History — External References — Corrections

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