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The Junior Classics, Volume 2: Folk Tales and Myths

The Junior Classics, Volume 2: Folk Tales and Myths

by William Patten

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Editor
Patten, William, 1868-1936
Credits
Produced by MFR, For Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
Language
English
LoC Class
PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
Subject
Tales -- Juvenile literature
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 57521
Release Date
July 16, 2018
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.The Junior Classics, Volume 2: Folk Tales and Myths
  2. 2.CONTENTS
  3. 3.ILLUSTRATIONS
  4. 4.NOTE
  5. 5.THE NORTHMEN’S STORY OF HOW ALL THINGS BEGAN
  6. 6.HOW THE QUEEN OF THE SKY GAVE GIFTS TO MEN
  7. 7.THE DWARFS AND THE FAIRIES
  8. 8.HOW THOR WENT TO JÖTUNHEIM
  9. 9.HOW THOR’S HAMMER WAS LOST AND FOUND
  10. 10.IDUNA’S APPLES OF YOUTH — I. REFLECTIONS IN THE WATER — II. THE WINGED-GIANT — III. HELA — IV. THROUGH FLOOD AND FIRE
  11. 11.HOW THE FENRIS WOLF WAS CHAINED
  12. 12.THE STORY OF BALDER THE BEAUTIFUL
  13. 13.THE WONDERFUL QUERN STONES
  14. 14.BRUNHILDA AND THE MAGIC SWORD
  15. 15.BRUNHILDA’S SLEEP GUARDED BY LOKI’S FIERY ARM
  16. 16.HOW SIEGFRIED KILLED THE DRAGON
  17. 17.HOW SIEGFRIED FINDS BRUNHILDA
  18. 18.THE PLOT AGAINST THE BEAUTIFUL ELSA OF BRABANT
  19. 19.THE KNIGHTS OF THE HOLY GRAIL
  20. 20.LOHENGRIN THE CHAMPION OF ELSA OF BRABANT
  21. 21.ORTRUDA PLOTS FOR REVENGE
  22. 22.THE DEPARTURE OF LOHENGRIN
  23. 23.THE WOOING OF THE DAUGHTER OF THE KING OF IRELAND
  24. 24.THE LADY OF KYNAST
  25. 25.THE GUARDIAN ANGEL
  26. 26.THE GIANT WHO LAUGHED AT A DWARF
  27. 27.THE LEGEND OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER
  28. 28.PRINCE IVAN AND THE GRAY WOLF
  29. 29.KING ROBERT OF SICILY
  30. 30.THE RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX
  31. 31.THE GIFT OF ATHENE [2]
  32. 32.DAPHNE, CHILD OF THE MORNING
  33. 33.THE VENGEANCE OF APOLLO
  34. 34.THE STORY OF ARION
  35. 35.THE BATTLE OF THE FROGS AND THE MICE
  36. 36.ORPHEUS THE SWEET SINGER
  37. 37.NIOBE, A VICTIM OF LATONA’S JEALOUSY
  38. 38.THE SAD STORY OF PYRAMUS AND THISBE
  39. 39.THE TWELVE LABORS OF HERCULES
  40. 40.HERCULES’S SEARCH FOR THE APPLES OF HESPERIDES
  41. 41.THE STORY OF CUPID AND PSYCHE
  42. 42.HOW PHAËTON DROVE THE SUN
  43. 43.BAUCIS AND PHILEMON, WHO WERE CHANGED INTO TWO TREES
  44. 44.THE PARADISE OF CHILDREN
  45. 45.RIP VAN WINKLE
  46. 46.THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
  47. 47.THE HARE WHO THOUGHT THE WORLD HAD COME TO AN END
  48. 48.THE WATERING OF THE SAPLINGS
  49. 49.THE OLD HARE AND THE ELEPHANTS
  50. 50.THE ELEPHANT HAS A BET WITH THE TIGER
  51. 51.HOW THE TORTOISE OUTRAN THE DEER
  52. 52.WHICH WAS THE STRONGER, THE TORTOISE, THE TAPIR, OR THE WHALE?
  53. 53.HOW THE TURTLE GOT HIS SHELL
  54. 54.THE LEGEND OF RATA
  55. 55.WHY THE HIPPOPOTAMUS LIVES IN THE WATER
  56. 56.WHY THE ELEPHANT HAS SMALL EYES
  57. 57.THE BOY WHO SET A SNARE FOR THE SUN
  58. 58.THE BIRD LOVER
  59. 59.WUNZH, THE FATHER OF INDIAN CORN
  60. 60.WHEN BRER WOLF HAVE HIS CORN SHUCKING
  61. 61.BRER RABBIT’S COOL AIR SWING
  62. 62.THE FOUR SEASONS
  63. 63.THE THREE LEMONS
  64. 64.THE WINTER-SPIRIT AND HIS VISITOR

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