Round the Yule Log: Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881 - Children's literature - 316 pages

Contents

• AN OLDFASHIONED CHRISTMAS: 1
• THE LADS WHO MET THE TROLLS IN THE HEDALE WOOD: 19
• MATTHIAS THE HUNTERS STORIES: 25
• THE LAD AND THE DEVIL: 36
• THE CORMORANTS OF UDRÖST: 45
• THE GIANT WHO HAD NO HEART: 52
• THE PANCAKE: 62
• A DAY WITH THE CAPERCAILZIES: 68
• THE GREEDY YOUNGSTER: 94
• THE SEVEN FATHERS IN THE HOUSE: 108
• MOTHER BERTHAS STORIES: 114
• THE SMITH AND THE DEVIL: 132
• THE THREE BILLY GOATS WHO WENT UP INTO THE HILLS: 141
• PETER GYNT: 145
• LEGENDS OF THE MILL: 151
• THE LAD AND THE NORTH WIND: 162
• ASHIEPATTLE AND THE KINGS HARES: 168
• MACKEREL TROLLING: 180
• ΡΕΙΚ: 194
• FOOLISH MEN AND SCOLDING WIVES: 203
• THE GIANT AND JOHANNES BLESSOM: 209
• THE WIDOWS SON: 215
• EAST OF THE SUN AND West of THE MOON: 227
• ASHIEPATTLE WHO MADE THE PRINCESS TELL THE TRUTH AT LAST: 243
• HANS WHO MADE THE PRINCESS LAUGH: 269
• A SUMMER NIGHT IN A NORWEGIAN FOREST: 277
• THE WITCH: 295
• THE CHARCOAL BURNER: 308

Bibliographic information

• Title: Round the Yule Log: Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales
• Author: Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
• Translated by: Hans Lien Brækstad
• Contributor: Edmund Gosse
• Publisher: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Oct 9, 2008
• Length: 316 pages