Popular Tales from the Norse
Read Popular Tales from the Norse online, free: 81 chapters, public domain, on Papyras.
Contents
- Notice to the Second Edition
- Notice to the First Edition
- Origin
- Diffusion
- Norse Mythology
- Norse Popular Tales
- Conclusion
- True and Untrue
- Why the Sea Is Salt
- The Old Dame and Her Hen
- East O’ the Sun and West O’ the Moon
- Boots Who Ate a Match with the Troll
- Hacon Grizzlebeard
- Boots, Who Made the Princess Say, “That’s a Story”
- The Twelve Wild Ducks
- The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body
- The Fox as Herdsman
- The Mastermaid
- The Cat on the Dovrefell
- Princess on the Glass Hill
- How One Went Out to Woo
- The Cock and Hen
- The Master-Smith
- The Two Step-Sisters
- Buttercup
- Taming the Shrew
- Shortshanks
- Gudbrand on the Hill-Side
- The Blue Belt
- Why the Bear Is Stumpy-Tailed
- Not a Pin to Choose Between Them
- One’s Own Children Are Always Prettiest
- The Three Princesses of Whiteland
- The Lassie and Her Godmother
- The Three Aunts
- The Cock, the Cuckoo, and the Black-Cock
- Rich Peter the Pedlar
- Gertrude’s Bird
- Boots and the Troll
- Goosey Grizzel
- The Lad Who Went to the North Wind
- The Master Thief
- The Best Wish
- The Three Billy-Goats Gruff
- Well Done and Ill Paid
- The Husband Who Was to Mind the House
- Dapplegrim
- Farmer Weathersky
- Lord Peter
- The Seven Foals
- The Widow’s Son
- Bushy Bride
- Boots and His Brothers
- Big Peter and Little Peter
- Tatterhood
- The Cock and Hen That Went to the Dovrefell
- Katie Woodencloak
- Thumbikin
- Doll I’ the Grass
- The Lad and the Deil
- The Cock and Hen a-Nutting
- The Big Bird Dan
- Soria Moria Castle
- Bruin and Reynard
- Tom Totherhouse
- Little Annie the Goose-Girl
- Introduction to Appendix
- Why the Jack-Spaniard’s Waist Is Small
- Ananzi and the Lion
- Ananzi and Quanqua
- The Ear of Corn and the Twelve Men
- The King and the Ant’s Tree
- The Little Child and the Pumpkin Tree
- The Brother and His Sisters
- The Girl and the Fish
- The Lion, the Goat, and the Baboon
- Ananzi and Baboon
- The Man and the Doukana Tree
- Nancy Fairy
- “The Dancing Gang”
- Footnotes to Introduction