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Norwegian Folk Tales
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Norwegian Folk Tales Paperback - 1982

by Asbjornsen, Peter Christen

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Pantheon, 1982-08-12. paperback. Used: Good.
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  • Title Norwegian Folk Tales
  • Author Asbjornsen, Peter Christen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Thus
  • Condition Used: Good
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pantheon, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1982-08-12
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # SONG0394710541
  • ISBN 9780394710549 / 0394710541
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.13 x 0.51 in (23.37 x 15.57 x 1.30 cm)
  • Ages 09 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 4 - 7
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Scandinavian
  • Library of Congress subjects Fairy tales - Norway
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 82006401
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.2

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From the publisher

Boyhood friends Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe discovered an interest in folktales in common, and were inspired by the German Grimm brothers to collect and publish their favorite homeland tales. The first volume of collected Norwegian Folktales was published in 1845, and became exceedingly popular. Asbjørnsen was born in 1812 in Christiana (Oslo) and became a teacher. Moe was born on a farm in Ringerike, and continued his family trade.

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If Norway were to show the world a single work of art which would most truly express the Norwegian character, perhaps the best choice would be the folk tales, published for the first time more than a hundred years ago and later illustrated by Erik Werenskiold and Theodor Kittelsen.

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Collected here in a contemporary translation. With these tales we meet witches, trolls and ogres, sly foxes and mysterious bears, beautiful princesses and country lads turned heroes. Includes illustrations.

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About the author

PETER CHRISTEN ASBJRNSEN (1812-1885) and JRGEN MOE (1813-1882), friends from childhood with a long-standing interest in their country's folklore traditions, were inspired by Jacob Grimm to compile a collection of Norwegian folk tales, Norske Folkeeventyr, in 1879. Norske Folkeeventyr continues to be in print to this day.

ERIK WERENSKOLD
(1855-1938) was a noted Norwegian painter and illustrator. At the time a young, relatively unknown painter, he was among the artists whose drawings appeared in the first illustrated edition of Norske Folkeeventyr in 1879. They established him as one of Norway's foremost artists.

THEODOR KITTELSEN
(1857-1914) was a noted Norwegian artist. At the time young and unknown, he was invited by Erik Werenskold in 1881 to collaborate on a second illustrated edition of Norske Folkeeventyr, which included only their drawings. In 1908 he was made Knight of The Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.