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Title True and untrue and other Norse tales / edited and compiled by Sigrid Undset ; illustrated by Frederick T. Chapman
Edition First University of Minnesota Press edition
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations
Contents True and untrue -- The mastermaid -- Soria Moria Castle -- The seven foals -- Dapplegrim -- Farmer Weathersky -- The giant who had no heart in his body -- The Big Bird Dan -- The boy with the ale keg -- The blacksmith they were afraid to receive in hell -- Gertrude's bird -- Why the sea is salt -- Buttercup -- Herding the king's hares -- The ashlad who made the princess say, "You lie" -- Well done and ill paid -- Why the bear is stumpy-tailed -- The fox as herdsman -- Gudbrand on the hillside -- Little Frikk and his fiddle -- The husband who was to mind the house -- Not a pin to choose between them -- The squire's bride -- The master thief -- The parson and the sexton -- East o' the sun and west o' the moon -- The reward of the world
Summary A selection of Norwegian folktales, this book is based on the classic folklore collected by Pieter Christian Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe. These stories tell of worlds similar to our own, worlds with love and hate, sorrow and joy, humor and pathos
Notes "These tales are based on the original stories collected by Peter Christian Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe"--Title page verso
Reprint of: True and untrue and other Norse tales / edited by Sigrid Undset. -- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1945
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Subject Short stories, Old Norse.
FICTION -- Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Scandinavia.
Short stories, Old Norse
Form Electronic book
Author Undset, Sigrid, 1882-1949, editor.
Chapman, Frederick T. (Frederick Trench), 1887-1983, illustrator.
ISBN 1299943144
9781299943148
9781461944638
1461944635
9780816684809
0816684804