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folk and fairy tales by p chr asbjornsen translated by h l br^ekstad gosse with an introduction by edmund w seventh edition new york a c armstrong 714 broadway son,

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contents page introduction xiii xviii an old-fashioned christmas eve the lads who met the trolls matthias the hunter s stories in i the hedale wood ig 25 the lad and the devil the man who was going to mind the house the cormorants of udrost 36 40 45 52 the giant who had no heart the pancake 62 a day with the capercailzies 68 the greedy youngster 94 the seven fathers brave old bruin in the house 108 in 114 132 mother bertha s stories the smith and the devii the three billy goats who went up into the hills to get fat 141

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x contents page peter gvnt legends of the mill j 45 t 15 the lad and the north wind ashiepattle and the king s hares 162 1 68 mackerel trolling peik 180 194 foolish men and scolding wives 203 206 the parson and the clerk the giant and johannes blessom 209 the box with the funny thing the widow s son in it 214 215 227 east of the sun and west of the moon ashiepattle who made the in princess tell the truth at last 243 an evening the squire s kitchen 248 269 277 295 hans who made the princess laugh a summer night the witch in a norwegian forest the charcoal burner 308

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introduction three names in the living literature of norway may be homein said to have escaped from the provinciality of a narrow circle and to have conquered a place concert for themselves the general european are borne two of these ibsen and bjornson is by professional poets the third that of a mar of science whose irresistible bias towards literary style said to may be have of made a poet of him against his will the novelettes bjornson and the comedies of ibsen belong to the tradition of imaginative art but the stories of asbjornsen a selection from which in is here introduced to the english public in literature some sense inaugurated a new order our poetical here in england where language has been repeatedly renewed at the fresh wells of the vernacular where chaucer in and the elizabethans butler and burns and dickens each his own way have constantly enriched our classical speech scarcely realise first with the bright idioms of the vulgar we can how startling a thing it is when a great writer dares in a ripe literature to write exactly as people commonly speak

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