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d'Aulaires' book of Norwegian folktales / edited and Illustrated by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Norwegian Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016Edition: First University of Minnesota Press editionDescription: pages cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780816699322 (hardback)
Uniform titles:
  • Østenfor sol og vestenfor mane. English
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • JUV012020 | JNF038060
Contents:
Summary: Twenty-one of the Norwegian folk tales collected by AsbjÃrnsen and Moe telling of trolls, sprites, princesses, cinderlads, talking cats, and mountains made of glass.
List(s) this item appears in: Fairy tale collections and criticism
Holdings
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Book NMC Library Stacks PZ8 .A89 DAU 2016 1 Available 33039001422475

"These tales have been adapted from the Dasent Translation of the Collection of AsbjÃrnsen and Moe"--Copyright page.

"Originally published in 1938 as East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Twenty-One Norwegian Folk Tales by Viking Press, New York"--Copyright page.

Includes "The Three Billy-Goats Gruff" (titled "The Three Bushy Bill-Goats")

Herding the king's hares -- The ship that went as well by land as by sea -- The queen that stands and grinds at the bottom of the sea -- The maid on the glass mountain -- The widow's son -- Lord Per -- Soria Moria Castle -- Per, Paal, and Espen Cinderlad -- Cinderlad and the troll -- The big bird dam -- Kari Woodenskirt -- Why the bear is stumpy-tailed -- East of the sun and west of the moon -- The three princesses in the mountain so blue -- The three bushy billy-goats -- Tatterhood -- Dapplegrim -- Gudbrand on the hillside -- The hen trips in the mountain -- The three aunts -- Doll in the grass.