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Popular tales from the Norse

with an introductory essay on the origin and diffusion of popular tales

by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (Compiler), Jørgen Engebretsen Moe (Compiler), George Webbe Dasent (Translator), 1812-1885 & 1813-1882

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: English, Norwegian
  • Content type: Primary source
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"Popular Tales from the Norse" by Asbjørnsen, Moe, and Dasent is a collection of Norwegian folktales first published in English in 1859. Drawing from Norway's rich oral traditions, these stories were originally gathered by teacher Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and minister Jørgen Moe, who traveled the countryside collecting tales directly from storytellers. Inspired by the Brothers Grimm's methodology, they carefully retold these narratives while preserving their authentic Norwegian character. Translator George Webbe Dasent brought these enchanting tales to English readers, earning praise from the original collectors themselves. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Legendary beings and transformations and Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Legendary beings and transformations

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Fairies”.

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  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, online-books-page, openlibrary-historical, and project-gutenberg matched “Fairy tales”, “Folklore”, “folklore”, and 3 additional term(s). Retained metadata contains “Tales” in the title, “Tales” in the subtitle, “Tales” in the description, and 5 additional metadata match(es).

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    • “Folklore”· via Internet Archive
    • “Tales”· via Internet Archive
    • “Fairy tales”· via The Online Books Page
    • “Tales”· via The Online Books Page
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Editions

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with an introductory essay on the origin and diffusion of popular tales

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1888-01-01T00:00:00ZNew York : G. P. Putnam's Sons Edinburgh : David DouglasEnglish, Norwegian—Public digitized item

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1888-01-01T00:00:00ZEdinburgh, DouglasEnglish—Public digitized item

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1859-01-01T00:00:00ZNew York : D. Appleton and CompanyEnglish—Public digitized item

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Cornell University Library
  • Contributing institution: National Library of Scotland
  • Contributing institution: New York Public Library
  • Contributing institution: Oxford University
  • Contributing institution: University of Michigan
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Digitization sponsor: MSN
  • Digitization sponsor: National Library of Scotland
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Open Library reports 16 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 3 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
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  • Scanner: Kirtas APT 2400
  • Scanner: nycs2.nyc.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribe1.edinburgh.archive.org
  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): PT8802 .A2 D4
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: main body of third edition included; introduction and appendix omitted
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: second edition, with introduction and appendix; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904
  • Translators: Dasent, George Webbe, Sir
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