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Author:   Peter Christen Asbjørnsen ,  Jørgen Moe ,  Tiina Nunnally
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Edition:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781517921040

ISBN 10:   151792104
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   30 October 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Translator’s Note Norwegian Folktales About Ash Lad, Who Stole the Troll’s Silver Ducks, Coverlet, and Golden Harp The Gjertrud Bird The Griffin The Quandary Richman Peddler Per Ash Lad, Who Competed with the Troll About the Boy Who Went to the North Wind and Demanded the Flour Back The Virgin Mary as Godmother The Three Princesses in White Land Some Women Are Like That Everyone Thinks Their Own Children Are Best A Tale of Courtship The Three Aunts The Widow’s Son The Husband’s Daughter and the Wife’s Daughter The Rooster and the Hen in the Nut Forest The Bear and the Fox Why the Bear Has a Stump of a Tail The Fox Cheats the Bear Out of His Christmas Meal Gudbrand Slope Kari Stave-Skirt The Fox as Shepherd The Blacksmith They Didn’t Dare Let Into Hell The Rooster and the Hen The Rooster, the Cuckoo, and the Black Grouse Lillekort The Doll in the Grass Paal Next-Door Soria Moria Castle Sir Per Little Aase Goosegirl The Boy and the Devil The Seven Foals Gidske The Twelve Wild Ducks The Master Thief The Three Sisters Who Were Taken Into the Mountain About the Giant Troll Who Never Carried His Heart With Him Dappleband Nothing is Needed by the One That All Women Love Ash Lad, Who Got the Princess to Say He Was Lying The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Who Were Supposed to Go Up to the Mountain Pasture to Fatten Up East of the Sun and West of the Moon The Hen Who Had to Go to Dovre Mountain, or Else the Whole World Would Perish The Man Who Had to Keep House Tom Thumb Haaken Speckled-Beard Master Maiden Well Done and Poorly Rewarded True and Untrue Per and Paal and Esben Ash Lad The Mill That Keeps Grinding at the Bottom of the Sea The Maiden on the Glass Mountain Butterball Big-Per and Little-Per Ragged-Cap The Bushy Bride The Tabby-Cat on Dovre Mountain Farmer Weather-Beard The Blue Twine The Honest Four-Skilling Coin The Old Man of the House Foreword to the Second Norwegian Edition From the Introduction to the Second Norwegian Edition JØrgen Moe Foreword to the Third Norwegian Edition Peter Christen AsbjØrnsen Foreword to the Fourth Norwegian Edition Peter Christen AsbjØrnsen Notes on the Regional Collection Sites of the Tales

Reviews

""Like the Grimms before them, Peter Christen AsbjØrnsen and JØrgen Moe applied countless fine calibrations to make their stories, paradoxically, a perfect capture of folk traditions. Tiina Nunnally set out to make their tales sing in English translation, and presto! Trolls, griffins, Ash Lads, and all the wonders of the Norwegian imagination spring to life with renewed cultural energy and Élan.""-Maria Tatar, editor of The Annotated Brothers Grimm* ""Peter Christen AsbjØrnsen and JØrgen Moe scoured the Norwegian countryside to collect these classic folktales full of monstrous trolls, cunning wives, stupid husbands, and the Ash Lad, the poor boy who wins the princess and half of the kingdom. Tiina Nunnally has recreated this entire world in vivid color for English readers who are in for a real adventure.""-Vidar SundstØl, author of The Land of Dreams ""Like apparitions in a dream, familiar figures and motifs from fairy tale and folklore shift and change into striking and peculiar forms in this founding collection of Scandinavian fantasy: trickster heroines devise cunning escapes and an Ash Lad triumphs over trolls lurking everywhere in the mountains and the forests, malignant but also bumbling. The stories open horizons of enjoyable impossibility and are filled with the humor of resistance and a relish for the absurd. Throughout, Tiina Nunnally’s new, pared down renderings capture limpidly that special tone of affectless matter-of-factness that readers and listeners thrill to, laughing and shivering at the same time.""-Marina Warner, author of Fairy Tale: A Very Short Introduction* ""Norway’s wonderfully weird traditional tales are as much a delight to the ear as they are to the imagination.""-Wall Street Journal ""Following the tales are forewords and notes to several editions of Norske Folkeeventyr. Of these, Moe’s introduction to the second edition is outstanding. He argues for the long continuity of Norwegian tradition by pointing out various striking motifs from medieval literature (the Eddas and sagas) that appear in these nineteenth-century folktales, and then some other folktale motifs that have gone through a Christian transformation.""-Journal of Folklore Research ""The retellings are lively and clearly work to retain the flavor of the originals. A valuable collection for scholars and readers alike.""-The Horn Book ""Given the internationally recognised importance of AsbjØrnsen’s and Moe’s collection, a newer English translation of their tales has long been desired. Tiina Nunnally’s recent work, based on the fourth edition (1868) of AsbjØrnsen’s and Moe’s Norske folkeeventyr, fulfils this need with distinction.""-Gramarye ""The kind of book you can pick up and put down over several weeks and always end up smiling.""-UP Book Review 

Author Information

Peter Christen Asbjrnsen (18121885) and Jrgen Moe (18131882) were energetic writers and researchers best known for their monumental collection Norske folkeeventyr (Norwegian Folktales), which introduced the lively traditions of Norwegian storytelling to readers around the world. Tiina Nunnally is an award-winning translator of Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish literature. Her translations published by the University of Minnesota Press include Sigrid Undset's Olav Audunssn tetralogy and Marta Oulie as well as works by Vidar Sundstl, Ola Larsmo, and Hans Christian Andersen.

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