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A Selection from the Norse Tales for the Use of Children
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen, 1812-1885
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : multiple file formats
- Place of Publication:
- Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,
- Summary:
- "A Selection from the Norse Tales for the Use of Children" by G. W. Dasent is a collection of children's stories based on traditional Norse tales, likely compiled in the mid-19th century. This selection presents an assortment of moral and imaginative tales, showcasing various characters, including clever heroes, enchanted animals, and magical beings, each with their own adventures. The beginning of the collection introduces the premise of cleaning up the tales to make them more suitable for children, hinting at the stories' themes of morality and ethical lessons. It includes the tale "True and Untrue," following the contrasting fates of two brothers-one honest and virtuous, the other deceitful. True's journey of resilience and eventual triumph over hardship, despite being blinded by his brother, sets the tone for the collection, suggesting that perseverance and integrity ultimately prevail. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
- Contents:
- True and untrue
- The old dame and her hen
- East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon
- Boots who ate a match with the Troll
- Boots, who made the Princess say, "That's a story"
- The twelve wild ducks
- The giant who had no heart in his body
- The fox as herdsman
- The cat on the Dovrefell
- Princess on the glass hill
- How one went out to woo
- The cock and hen
- The two step-sisters
- Buttercup
- Taming the shrew
- Shortshanks
- Gudbrand on the hill-side
- The blue belt
- Why the bear is stumpy-tailed
- Not a pin to choose between them
- One's own children are always prettiest
- The three princesses of Whiteland
- The lassie and her godmother
- The three aunts
- The cock, the cuckoo, and the black-cock
- Rich Peter the Pedlar
- Boots and the Troll
- The lad who went to the North Wind
- The best wish
- The three billy-goats Gruff
- Well done and ill paid
- The husband who was to mind the house
- Dapplegrim
- The seven foals
- The widow's son
- Bushy Bride
- Boots and his brothers.
- Credits:
- Tim Lindell, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Notes:
- Reading ease score: 83.0 (6th grade). Easy to read.
- Selected stories from Dasent's translation of the "Norske folkeeventyr" by P.C. Asbjørnsen and J.E. Moe.
- Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Folktales
- Release date is 2020-12-31
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