Popular Tales from the Norse

by Sir George Webbe Dasent

WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY ON THE ORIGIN AND DIFFUSION OF POPULARTALES

Contents

Notice to the Second Edition

Notice to the First Edition

NORSE MYTHOLOGY

NORSE POPULAR TALES

TALES

I. TRUE AND UNTRUE

II. WHY THE SEA IS SALT

III. THE OLD DAME AND HER HEN

IV. EAST O’ THE SUN, AND WEST O’ THE MOON

V. BOOTS WHO ATE A MATCH WITH THE TROLL

VI. HACON GRIZZLEBEARD

VII. BOOTS WHO MADE THE PRINCESS SAY, “THAT’S A STORY”

VIII. THE TWELVE WILD DUCKS

IX. THE GIANT WHO HAD NO HEART IN HIS BODY

X. THE FOX AS HERDSMAN

XI. THE MASTERMAID

XII. THE CAT ON THE DOVREFELL

XIII. PRINCESS ON THE GLASS HILL

XIV. HOW ONE WENT OUT TO WOO

XV. THE COCK AND HEN

XVI. THE MASTER-SMITH

XVII. THE TWO STEP-SISTERS

XVIII. BUTTERCUP

XIX. TAMING THE SHREW

XX. SHORTSHANKS

XXI. GUDBRAND ON THE HILL-SIDE

XXII. THE BLUE BELT

XXIII. WHY THE BEAR IS STUMPY-TAILED

XXIV. NOT A PIN TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THEM

XXV. ONE’S OWN CHILDREN ARE ALWAYS PRETTIEST

XXVI. THE THREE PRINCESSES OF WHITELAND

XXVII. THE LASSIE AND HER GODMOTHER

XXVIII. THE THREE AUNTS

XXIX. THE COCK, THE CUCKOO, AND THE BLACK-COCK

XXX. RICH PETER THE PEDLAR

XXXI. GERTRUDE’S BIRD

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