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Popular Tales from the Norse

by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe

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  1. 1Notice to the Second Edition
  2. 2Notice to the First Edition
  3. 3Introduction
  4. 4Diffusion
  5. 5Norse Mythology
  6. 6Norse Popular Tales
  7. 7Conclusion
  8. 8True and Untrue
  9. 9Why the Sea Is Salt
  10. 10The Old Dame and Her Hen
  11. 11East o’ the Sun and West o’ the Moon
  12. 12Boots Who Ate a Match With the Troll
  13. 13Hacon Grizzlebeard
  14. 14Boots, Who Made the Princess Say, “That’s a Story”
  15. 15The Twelve Wild Ducks
  16. 16The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body
  17. 17The Fox as Herdsman
  18. 18The Mastermaid
  19. 19The Cat on the Dovrefell
  20. 20Princess on the Glass Hill
  21. 21How One Went Out to Woo
  22. 22The Cock and Hen
  23. 23The Master-Smith
  24. 24The Two Step-Sisters
  25. 25Buttercup
  26. 26Taming the Shrew
  27. 27Shortshanks
  28. 28Gudbrand on the Hill-Side
  29. 29The Blue Belt
  30. 30Why the Bear Is Stumpy-Tailed
  31. 31Not a Pin to Choose Between Them
  32. 32One’s Own Children Are Always Prettiest
  33. 33The Three Princesses of Whiteland
  34. 34The Lassie and Her Godmother
  35. 35The Three Aunts
  36. 36The Cock, the Cuckoo, and the Black-Cock
  37. 37Rich Peter the Pedlar
  38. 38Gertrude’s Bird
  39. 39Boots and the Troll
  40. 40Goosey Grizzel
  41. 41The Lad Who Went to the North Wind
  42. 42The Master Thief
  43. 43The Best Wish
  44. 44The Three Billy-Goats Gruff
  45. 45Well Done and Ill Paid
  46. 46The Husband Who Was to Mind the House
  47. 47Dapplegrim
  48. 48Farmer Weathersky
  49. 49Lord Peter
  50. 50The Seven Foals
  51. 51The Widow’s Son
  52. 52Bushy Bride
  53. 53Boots and His Brothers
  54. 54Big Peter and Little Peter
  55. 55Tatterhood
  56. 56The Cock and Hen That Went to the Dovrefell
  57. 57Katie Woodencloak
  58. 58Thumbikin
  59. 59Doll I’ the Grass
  60. 60The Lad and the Deil
  61. 61The Cock and Hen A-Nutting
  62. 62The Big Bird Dan
  63. 63Soria Moria Castle
  64. 64Bruin and Reynard
  65. 65Tom Totherhouse
  66. 66Little Annie the Goose-Girl
  67. 67Introduction to Appendix
  68. 68Appendix
  69. 69Ananzi and the Lion
  70. 70Ananzi and Quanqua
  71. 71The Ear of Corn and the Twelve Men
  72. 72The King and the Ant’s Tree
  73. 73The Little Child and the Pumpkin Tree
  74. 74The Brother and His Sisters
  75. 75The Girl and the Fish
  76. 76The Lion, the Goat, and the Baboon
  77. 77Ananzi and Baboon
  78. 78The Man and the Doukana Tree
  79. 79Nancy Fairy
  80. 80“The Dancing Gang”
  81. 81Footnotes to Introduction

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