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The Project Gutenberg EBook of East of the Sun and West of the Moon, by Peter Christen Asbjornsen and Jorgen Engebretsen Moe This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: East of the Sun and West of the Moon Old Tales from the North Author: Peter Christen Asbjornsen Jorgen Engebretsen Moe Illustrator: Kay Nielsen Release Date: January 15, 2010 [EBook #30973] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EAST OF THE SUN *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, Dan Horwood and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) * * * * * [Illustration: He too saw the image in the water; but he looked up at once, and became aware of the lovely Lassie who sate there up in the tree. Page 70] * * * * * EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON OLD TALES FROM THE NORTH ILLUSTRATED BY KAY NIELSEN NEW YORK GEORGE H DORAN COMPANY * * * * * PREFACE A folk-tale, in its primitive plainness of word and entire absence of complexity in thought, is peculiarly sensitive and susceptible to the touch of stranger hands; and he who has been able to acquaint himself with the _Norske Folkeeventyr_ of Asbjoernsen and Moe (from which these stories are selected), has an advantage over the reader of an English rendering. Of this advantage Mr. Kay Nielsen has fully availed himself: and the exquisite _bizarrerie_ of his drawings aptly expresses the innermost significance of the old-world, old-wives' fables. For to term these legends, Nursery Tales, would be to curtail them, by nine-tenths, of their interest. They are the romances of the childhood of Nations: they are the never-failing springs of sentiment, of sensation, of heroic example, from which primeval peoples drank their fill at will. The quaintness, the tenderness, the grotesque yet realistic intermingling of actuality with supernaturalism, by which the original _Norske Folkeeven
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