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Popular Tales from the Norse: With an Introductory Essay on the Origin and ...

 By Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe, George Webbe Dasent
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By Peter Christen
Asbjørnsen, Jørgen
Engebretsen Moe, George
Webbe Dasent
Translated by George
Webbe Dasent
Contributor Jørgen
Engebretsen Moe
Published 1859
Edmonston and Douglas
Fairy tales
507 pages
Original from Oxford University
Digitized Aug 10, 2007
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"Translations from the Norske folkeeventyr, collected ... by MM. Asbjørnsen and Moe ... One of them, The master thief ... appeared in Blackwood's magazine for November, 1851."--p. [ix]

Contents

1
John's eve, scrip, king of England
10
Hacon Grizzlebeard, daugh, shiver and shake
59
Mastermaid, golden mail, golden apple
105
kingdom of Heaven, fetch the Smith, three wishes
117
little silver, old hag, kneading-trough
123
deep dale, Ritter Red, Fire and flame
149
Gudbrand, goodwife, goat
156
lvii
Shortshanks, Ogre, Twelve Wild Ducks
187
Snipe, shoot my children, Sportsman
188
sound as ever, North Wind, knew where Whiteland
198
lassie, old queen, when—POP
205
happiest day, yarn, lassie dared
211
Cuckoo, Black-cock, woke
212
miller's son, Peter the Pedlar, carry folk
230
red mutch, whole griddle, bannock was too
232
Troll's daughter, seven silver ducks, silver patches
241
Grizzel, Deil, turnips
250
ducats, North Wind, North Wind's house
255
witchcraft, old dame, Hutetu
280
scissors, innkeeper's wife, custards
295
roared the Troll, big billy-goat Gruff, coming to gobble
298
bawled, Dobbin, sledge
303
lassie, SUN AND WEST, tallow
321
goody, thatch, scythe
325
Dapplegrim, barley, twelve foals
342
Farmer Weathersky, hundred miles off, Eagle
355
old witch, Don't tread, wool
369
Lord Peter, winter rye, griddle
378
seven foals, lazy bones, hill and dale
390
pitcher, coat of mail, thought the lad
405
pine bush, Little Flo, stepmother
415
Princess and half, fell the oak, Trickle and run
423
twelve wild ducks, old Queen, Snow-white and Rosy-red

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What covered all? what sheltered? what concealed? Was it the water's fathomless abyss? There was not death — yet was there naught immortal, There was no confine betwixt day and night ; The only One breathed breathless by itself, Other than It there nothing since has been. Darkness there was, and all at first was veiled In gloom profound — an ocean without light... - Page xviii

Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place : for all they that take the sword, shall perish with the sword. - Page xxxviii

ONCE on a time there was an old widow who had one son; and, as she was poorly and weak, her son had to go up into the safe to fetch meal for cooking. But when he got outside the safe, and was just going down the steps, there came the North Wind, puffing and blowing, caught up the meal, and so away with it through the air. Then the lad went back into the safe for more; but when he came out again on the steps, if the North Wind didn't come again and carry off the meal with a puff; and, more than that,... - Page 250

Far, far away in a lake lies an island; on that island stands a church; in that church is a well; in that well swims a duck; in that duck there is an egg, and in that egg there lies my heart— you darling! - Page 55

well that is good of you; thanks with all my heart. We are so well to do that we may drive to church, just as well as other people; and if we choose to keep a horse we have a right to get one, I should think. So run out, child, and put up the horse. - Page 152

Once on a time there were three billy-goats, who were to go up to the hillside to make themselves fat, and the name of all three was "Gruff. - Page 295

They have been the prominent actors in the great drama of history, and have carried to their fullest growth all the elements of active life with which our nature is endowed. - Page xv

Yes, she got on his back, and away he went from his house at a fine rate. And this time, too, she wasn't long on her way. So when they got to the North Wind's house, he was so wild and cross, cold puffs came from him a long way off. "Blast you both, what do you want? - Page 313

So one Sunday the White Bear came and said now they could set off to see her father and mother. Well, off they started, she sitting on his back; and they went far and long. At last they came to a grand house, and there her brothers and sisters were running about out of doors at play, and everything was so pretty, 'twas a joy to see. "This is where your father and mother live now," said the White Bear; "but don't forget what I told you, else you'll make us both unlucky. - Page 306

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surlalune Fairy Tales: The Fairy Tales of Asbjørnsen and Moe
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The Baldwin Project: Popular Tales from the Norse by George Webbe ...
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Norwegian Fairy Tales and Folktales - The Gold Scales
Popular Tales from the Norse. New ed. Edinburgh and London: David Douglas, 1903. Peter Chr. Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe. Popular Tales From The Norse. ...
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Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Popular Tales from the Norse, 1859, by George Webbe Dasent (translated with an .... A series of Popular Tales from the Norse of P. Chr. Asbjørnsen by Sir ...
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Norske Folkeeventyr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Asbjornsen, Peter Christian. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth ...
English translations of his works include Popular Tales from the Norse (tr. 1858) and Fairy Tales from the Far North (tr. 1897). Asbjørnsen was a forester ...
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90 nineteenth-century literature
in Popular Tales from the Norse was influenced by contemporary ethno-. logical and comparative philological methods that offered increas- ...
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Internet Archive Search: creator:"Moe, Jørgen Engebretsen, 1813 ...
Popular tales from the Norse - Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen, 1812-1885 Keywords: Fairy tales; Folklore -- Norway Downloads: 63 ...
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The Online Books Page: Browse subject: Fairy tales -- Norway
Popular Tales from the Norse (second edition, with introduction and appendix; New York: gp Putnam's Sons; Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904), by pc Asbjørnsen ...
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Popular tales from the Norse. Jerrold. Reign of King Oberon. Lang. Blue fairy book. Lang. Sleeping beauty and other stories. Wiggin and Smith. Fairy ring. ...
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