Folktales and Legends from Norway and the rest of Scandinavia
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[ Jump to the purchasing links ] Over the years, I have translated innumerous tidbits of folklore from all sorts of collectors and writers from across Scandinavia. My first advent calendar, containing 24 amusing Norwegian texts in English translation, is a way of beginning to publish this work. This is a digital publication only. The table of contents follows. Christmas in Norway, 2025 An Advent…
Get your copy here Buy a paperback edition At Lulu.com At Amazon.com Buy an ebook edition Directly from me (ePub) through Ko-Fi.com (best price for you; best royalty for me) From Amazon.com (Kindle) A legend belongs to a genre of folk narrative that purports to relate true accounts of inexplicable episodes encountered by friends, family, or even the raconteur. Regine Normann's Legends from Arctic…
This classic nursery tale, “The Three Bears” retains all the elements you remember from your childhood, but certain details peculiar to this Norwegian version place the story deep within the majestic Nordic forest. Illustrated by H. Krüger. First published in 1864, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen’s text has never previously appeared in English. Download it from my Ko-fi shop.
After eight years of solid work, it’s finally here. Every single folktale and legend published by Asbjørnsen & Moe in English for the first time. Two editions are available: one is annotated ( details here ) and includes a number of original introductory texts; the other has just the stories ( details here ). Both editions are fully illustrated. Oh, and if you choose to buy the .pdf copies…
Ringelihorn and Other Tales from Northern Norway is a collection of 20 folk- and fairy tales, first published in 2 volumes in 1925/ 6. These are magical tales, the like of which you’ll not have read before. [ Jump to the purchasing links ] Bewitched princesses and princes, sea-trolls (with mouths as wide as boat-house doors), giants, revenants, hulders, goblins, merfolk, eagles, goats, a wooden…
