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Popular Tales from the Norse

Popular Tales from the Norse

by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

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Translator
Dasent, George Webbe, Sir, 1817-1896
Credits
Distributed Proofreaders
Language
English
LoC Class
PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
Subject
Folklore -- Norway
Category
Text
eBook-No.
8933
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8933
Release Date
September 1, 2005
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Popular Tales from the Norse — by Sir George Webbe Dasent — WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY ON THE ORIGIN AND DIFFUSION OF POPULAR TALES — Contents
  2. 2.Notice to the Second Edition
  3. 3.Notice to the First Edition
  4. 4.INTRODUCTION
  5. 5.ORIGIN
  6. 6.DIFFUSION
  7. 7.NORSE MYTHOLOGY
  8. 8.NORSE POPULAR TALES
  9. 9.CONCLUSION
  10. 10.TALES FROM THE NORSE
  11. 11.TRUE AND UNTRUE
  12. 12.WHY THE SEA IS SALT
  13. 13.THE OLD DAME AND HER HEN
  14. 14.EAST O’ THE SUN AND WEST O’ THE MOON
  15. 15.BOOTS WHO ATE A MATCH WITH THE TROLL
  16. 16.HACON GRIZZLEBEARD
  17. 17.BOOTS, WHO MADE THE PRINCESS SAY, “THAT’S A STORY”
  18. 18.THE TWELVE WILD DUCKS
  19. 19.THE GIANT WHO HAD NO HEART IN HIS BODY
  20. 20.THE FOX AS HERDSMAN
  21. 21.THE MASTERMAID
  22. 22.THE CAT ON THE DOVREFELL
  23. 23.PRINCESS ON THE GLASS HILL
  24. 24.HOW ONE WENT OUT TO WOO
  25. 25.THE COCK AND HEN
  26. 26.THE MASTER-SMITH
  27. 27.THE TWO STEP-SISTERS
  28. 28.BUTTERCUP
  29. 29.TAMING THE SHREW
  30. 30.SHORTSHANKS
  31. 31.GUDBRAND ON THE HILL-SIDE
  32. 32.THE BLUE BELT
  33. 33.WHY THE BEAR IS STUMPY-TAILED
  34. 34.NOT A PIN TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THEM
  35. 35.ONE’S OWN CHILDREN ARE ALWAYS PRETTIEST
  36. 36.THE THREE PRINCESSES OF WHITELAND
  37. 37.THE LASSIE AND HER GODMOTHER
  38. 38.THE THREE AUNTS
  39. 39.THE COCK, THE CUCKOO, AND THE BLACK-COCK
  40. 40.RICH PETER THE PEDLAR
  41. 41.GERTRUDE’S BIRD
  42. 42.BOOTS AND THE TROLL
  43. 43.GOOSEY GRIZZEL
  44. 44.THE LAD WHO WENT TO THE NORTH WIND
  45. 45.THE MASTER THIEF
  46. 46.THE BEST WISH
  47. 47.THE THREE BILLY-GOATS GRUFF
  48. 48.WELL DONE AND ILL PAID
  49. 49.THE HUSBAND WHO WAS TO MIND THE HOUSE
  50. 50.DAPPLEGRIM
  51. 51.FARMER WEATHERSKY
  52. 52.LORD PETER
  53. 53.THE SEVEN FOALS
  54. 54.THE WIDOW’S SON
  55. 55.BUSHY BRIDE
  56. 56.BOOTS AND HIS BROTHERS
  57. 57.BIG PETER AND LITTLE PETER
  58. 58.TATTERHOOD
  59. 59.THE COCK AND HEN THAT WENT TO THE DOVREFELL
  60. 60.KATIE WOODENCLOAK
  61. 61.THUMBIKIN
  62. 62.DOLL I’ THE GRASS
  63. 63.THE LAD AND THE DEIL
  64. 64.THE COCK AND HEN A-NUTTING
  65. 65.THE BIG BIRD DAN
  66. 66.SORIA MORIA CASTLE
  67. 67.BRUIN AND REYNARD
  68. 68.TOM TOTHERHOUSE
  69. 69.LITTLE ANNIE THE GOOSE-GIRL
  70. 70.INTRODUCTION TO APPENDIX — ANANZI STORIES
  71. 71.APPENDIX
  72. 72.WHY THE JACK-SPANIARD’S WAIST IS SMALL
  73. 73.ANANZI AND THE LION
  74. 74.ANANZI AND QUANQUA
  75. 75.THE EAR OF CORN AND THE TWELVE MEN
  76. 76.THE KING AND THE ANT’S TREE
  77. 77.THE LITTLE CHILD AND THE PUMPKIN TREE
  78. 78.THE BROTHER AND HIS SISTERS
  79. 79.THE GIRL AND THE FISH
  80. 80.THE LION, THE GOAT, AND THE BABOON
  81. 81.ANANZI AND BABOON
  82. 82.THE MAN AND THE DOUKANA TREE
  83. 83.NANCY FAIRY
  84. 84.“THE DANCING GANG”
  85. 85.FOOTNOTES TO INTRODUCTION

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