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Title: Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian

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FOLK-LORE AND LEGENDS SCANDINAVIAN

W. W. Gibbings
18 Bury St., London, W.C.

1890

PREFATORY NOTE.

Thanks to Thiele, to Hylten-Cavallius and Stephens, and to Asbjoernsen
and Moe, Scandinavian Folklore is well to the front. Its treasures are
many, and of much value. One may be almost sorry to find among them the
originals of many of our English tales. Are we indebted to the folk of
other nations for all our folk-tales? It would almost seem so.

I have introduced into the present volume only one or two stories from
the Prose Edda. Space would not allow me to give so much of the Edda as
I could have wished.

In selecting and translating the matter for this volume, I have
endeavoured to make the book such as would afford its readers a fair
general view of the main features of the Folklore of the North. C.J.T.

CONTENTS

The Wonderful Plough (Isle of Rugen)

How a Lad stole the Giant's Treasure (Sweden)

Tales of Cats (Denmark)

The Magician's Daughter (Sweden)

The Hill-man invited to the Christening (Denmark)

The Meal of Frothi (Norway)

The Lost Bell (Isle of Rugen)

Maiden Swanwhite and Maiden Foxtail (Sweden)

Tales of Treasure (Denmark)

Holger Danske (Denmark)

Tales from the Prose Edda--

The Gods and the Wolf

The Strange Builder

Thor's Journey to the Land of Giants

How Thor Went a-Fishing

The Death of Baldur

The Punishment of Loki

The Origin of Tiis Lake (Denmark)

There are such Women (Norway)

Tales of the Nisses (Denmark)

The Dwarfs' Banquet (Norway)

The Icelandic Sorceresses (Eyrbiggia Saga)

The Thr