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Title: Folktales of Norway
Author: Reidar Christiansen
ISBN: 9780226105109
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1968
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 1
Number of Pages: 330
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: A remarkable collection of familiar and little-known folk stories from Norway, featuring trolls, witches, and all manner of spirits Often lacking the clear episodic structure of folktales about talking animals and magic objects, legends grow from retellings of personal experiences. Christiansen isolated some seventy-seven legend types, and many of these are represented here in absorbing stories of St. Olaf, hidden treasures, witches, and spirits of the air, water, and earth. The ugly, massively strong, but slow-witted trolls are familiar to English-speaking readers. Less well-known, but the subject of an enormous number of legends, are the more manlike yet sinister "huldre-folk" who live in houses and try to woo human girls. These tales reflect the wildness of Norway, its mountains, forests, lakes, and sea, and the stalwart character of its sparse population.
Author: Reidar Christiansen
ISBN: 9780226105109
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1968
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 1
Number of Pages: 330
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: A remarkable collection of familiar and little-known folk stories from Norway, featuring trolls, witches, and all manner of spirits Often lacking the clear episodic structure of folktales about talking animals and magic objects, legends grow from retellings of personal experiences. Christiansen isolated some seventy-seven legend types, and many of these are represented here in absorbing stories of St. Olaf, hidden treasures, witches, and spirits of the air, water, and earth. The ugly, massively strong, but slow-witted trolls are familiar to English-speaking readers. Less well-known, but the subject of an enormous number of legends, are the more manlike yet sinister "huldre-folk" who live in houses and try to woo human girls. These tales reflect the wildness of Norway, its mountains, forests, lakes, and sea, and the stalwart character of its sparse population.
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