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All the world's reward : folktales told by five Scandinavian storytellers / edited by Reimund Kvideland, Henning K. Sehmsdorf ; contributors, Hallfreður Örn Eiríksson [et al.]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kvideland, Reimund, Author.
- Series:
- NIF publications ; 33.
- NIF publications ; v. 33
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tales--Scandinavia.
- Tales.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- All the World’s Reward presents ninety-eight tales from Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Swedish-speaking Finland, and Iceland. Each area is represented by the complete recorded repertoire of a single storyteller. Such a focus helps place the stories in the context of the communities in which they were performed and also reveals how individual folk artists used the medium of oral literature to make statements about their lives and their world. Some preferred jocular stories and others wonder tales; some performed mostly for adults, others for children; some used storytelling to criticize society, and others spun wish fulfillment tales to find relief from a harsh reality.For the most part collected a century ago, the stories were gleaned from archives and printed sources; the Icelandic repertoire was collected on audiotape in the 1960s. Each repertoire was selected by a noted folklorist. Introductions to the storytellers and collectors and commentaries and references for the tales are provided. A general introduction, a comprehensive bibliography, and an index of the tales according to Aarne-Thompson’s typology are also included. Period illustrations add charm to the stories.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Olav Evindsson Austad : tales from Setesdal, Norway (1907-1926)
- pt. 2. Ane Margrete Hansen : tales from Jutland, Denmark (1889)
- pt. 3. Jakob Glader : Tales from Dal, Sweden (1884)
- pt. 4. Johann Bäckström : tales from Österby, Swedish Finland (1885)
- pt. 5. Herdís Jónasdóttir : tales from Húsafell, Iceland (1966-1967).
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 0-295-80063-1
- OCLC:
- 778432145
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