Cover Image

Folktales of Norway /

Show other versions (1)
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Christiansen, Reidar Th., 1886-1971 (Editor), Iversen, Pat Shaw (Translator), Dorson, Richard M. (Richard Mercer), 1916-1981 (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1964.
Series:Folktales of the world (Chicago, Ill.)
Subjects:
Tales > Norway.
Folklore > Norway.
Contes > Norvège.
Tales.
Norway.
Fictional Work
Fiction.
Romans.
Table of Contents:
  • Historical legends. King Olav, the national saint
  • King Olav and the gyger
  • King Olav, master builder of Seljord Church
  • King Olav, master builder of Trondheim Cathedral
  • The plague as an old hag is ferried across a river
  • The horse that carried the corpses across the mountains
  • The Jostedal grouse
  • The church found in the woods
  • Over the cliff
  • The girl and the robbers
  • The disputed site for a church at Voss
  • The disputed site for a church at Slagen
  • The disputed site for a church at Hosanger
  • The altarpiece in Ringsaker Church
  • Hidden treasures : the silver king
  • Hidden treasures : Rakbjörd treasure
  • Hidden treasures : the copper cauldron.
  • Legends about magic and witchcraft. The black school
  • Making the devil carry the cart
  • The cardplayers and the devil
  • Inexperienced use of the black book
  • Caried by the evil one
  • Following the witch
  • The witches' sabbath
  • The witch's daughter
  • The Finn messenger
  • Driving out the snakes.
  • Legends about ghosts, the human soul, and shapeshifting. The midnight mass of the dead
  • The human soul out wandering as a mouse
  • The human soul out wandering as a fly
  • Shapeshifting in Fäarland
  • Shapeshifting at harvest time.
  • Legends about spirits of the sea, lakes, and rivers. The battle between the sea draugs and the land draugs
  • The grateful merman
  • The cormorants from Utröst
  • The tufte-folk on Sandflesa
  • "The hour has come but not the man!"
  • The sea horse and the sea serpent
  • The sea serpent in Lake Mjösen.
  • Legends about spirits of the air. The oskorei fear the cross
  • The girl who was taken.
  • Legends about spirits of forest and mountain. Trolls resent a disturbance
  • The old troll and the handshake
  • The jutul and Johannes Blessom
  • The Urdebö rockfall
  • The prospects of the huldre-folk for salvation
  • The origin of the huldre-folk : the huldre minister
  • The origin of the huldre-folk : the hidden children of Eve
  • The changeling betrays his age
  • Disposing of a changeling
  • The sickly changeling
  • Food from the huldre-folk on the mountain
  • Food from the huldre-folk at Ellefstad
  • The haug-folk help a man
  • A woman helps a hulder
  • Removing a building to suit those under the ground
  • Escape from the huldre-folk
  • Living with the huldre-folk in a knoll
  • Living with the huldre-folk at Aanstad
  • Living with the huldre-folk at Ekeberg
  • Living with the huldre-folk at Nore
  • Married to a hulder
  • The interrupted huldre wedding at Melbustad
  • The interrupted huldre wedding at Norstuhov
  • The drinking horn stolen from the huldre-folk at Vallerhaug
  • The drinking horn stolen from the huldre-folk at Vellerhaug
  • The drinking horn stolen from the huldre-folk at Hifjell
  • The Christmas visitors and the tabby cat
  • The Christmas visitors at Kvame
  • A message from the huldre-folk that someone died
  • A hulder calls the dairymaids
  • The huldre-folk tell the date
  • Outrunning a hulder
  • The man who became huldrin
  • Outwitting the huldre suitor with magic herbs
  • Outwitting the huldre suitor with gun fire.
  • Legends about household spirits. Nisse fighting
  • The new breeches
  • The heavy load
  • The nisse's revenge
  • The tunkall
  • The gardvord beats up the troll.
  • Fictional folktales. The Finn king's daughter
  • The three princesses in Whittenland
  • Svein unafraid
  • Giske
  • The seven foals
  • All-black and all-white
  • Little Lucy goosey girl
  • Haaken Grizzlebeard
  • The blue band
  • Stupid men and shrewish wives
  • Some wives are that way
  • Mastermaid
  • The hen is tripping in the mountain
  • The one who is loved by womankind will never find himself in need
  • Bird dam
  • Mop head.