Norwegian Folktales

Collection of Norwegian folktales and legends by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe

Asbjornsen and Moe's Norske folkeeventyr 5th edition, 1874.

Norwegian Folktales (Norwegian: Norske folkeeventyr) is a collection of Norwegian folktales and legends by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe. It is also known as Asbjørnsen and Moe, after the collectors.[1]

## Asbjørnsen and Moe

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Asbjørnsen, a teacher, and Moe, a minister, had been friends for about 15 years when in 1841 they published the first volume of folktales –[2] the collection of which had been an interest of both for some years. The work's popularity is partly attributable to Norway's newly won partial independence, and the wave of nationalism that swept the country in the 19th century; and the Norwegian written language they contributed to developing (i.e., what would become Bokmål). The language of their publication of the fairy tales struck a balance in that, while it did not preserve their original dialect form in its entirety, it did import certain non-Danish features from it (dialect words and certain syntactic constructions).[3][4][a]

Asbjørnsen and Moe were inspired by the German folktale collectors, the Brothers Grimm, not merely to emulate their methodology, but drawing encouragement by it, their endeavor was a work of national importance,[4] especially as the Grimms openly gave high praise for the Norske folkeeventyr.[5] Asbjørnsen and Moe applied the principles espoused by the Grimms, for instance, using a simple linguistic style in place of dialects, while maintaining the original form of the stories.[citation needed] Moreover, Asbjørnsen and Moe did not publish collected folktales in the raw, but created "retold" versions, seeking to reconstruct the lost Urform (original form) of the tales—although the alterations performed were not as drastic as the Grimms sometimes allowed license for themselves.[6] The Norwegian pair also collected tales from the field themselves, in contrast to the Grimms.[7]

## Publications

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The original series, entitled Norske Folkeeventyr went into publication piecemeal. It first appeared a slim pamphlet (1841) offering a selection of a few tales, without a title page, the editor's names or table of contents. This was sufficiently well-received, and championed by P. A. Munch in a German newspaper.[4] It led to the appearance of a reprint of the first volume in 1843 and the second volume in 1844 as proper hardcovers. The second edition appeared in 1852.[8] Another series dubbed the "New Collection" appeared later (Norske Folke-Eventyr. Ny Samling 1871). The tales are numbered, the original collection containing 58 tales, increased to 60 tales in later editions. The new collection held 50 tales.

Asbjørnsen as a solo project collected and published Norske Huldre-Eventyr og Folkesagn I-II (1845–48),[1] which also was expanded by a "second collection," (Norske huldre-eventyr og folkesagn: anden samling 1866).[9]

## Illustrators

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Cover art to 1914 edition, artist: Theodor Kittelsen

The first fully illustrated edition of the book was the 1879 edition of Asbjørnsen's Norske folke- og huldre-eventyr, which featured the artworks of several artists: Peter Nicolai Arbo (1831−1892), Hans Gude (1825−1903), Vincent Stoltenberg Lerche [no], Eilif Peterssen (1852−1928), August Schneider (1842−1873), Otto Sinding (1842−1909), Adolph Tidemand (1814−1876), and Erik Werenskiold (1855−1938).[10][b]

In later editions, Werenskiold and Theodor Kittelsen became prominent illustrators. Kittelsen was an unknown artist when he began collaborating on the project on the recommendation of his friend Werenskiold.[13]

## Translation into English

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The tales were first translated into English by Sir George Webbe Dasent.[c] He translated all but a few of the tales from the two series of Norske Folkeeventyr. Dasent's Popular Tales from the Norse (1859), contains all 58 tales from the initial edition of the original collection.[15][d] Dasent's Tales from the Fjeld: A Second Series of Popular Tales (1874) covers the two tales added to later editions of the original collection and 45 of the tales from the new collection.[16][e]

Asbjørnsen and Moe evidently approved of Dasent's translations: "In France and England collections have appeared in which our tales have not only been correctly and faultlessly translated, but even rendered with exemplary truth and care nay, with thorough mastery. The English translation, by George Webbe Dasent, is the best and happiest rendering of our tales that has appeared."[17]

H. L. Braekstad, Round the Yule Log: Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales (1881) includes tales from the Norske Huldre-Eventyr.[18] An abridged translation of Stroebe's Nordische Volksmärchen (1922),[19] rendered into English by Martens, provides additional tales from the various collections, and complements the above translations to some extent. Carl Norman's Norwegian Folktales (1960) is a selection that includes some of the tales from the Ny Samling omitted by Dasent.[20]

The most recent translation of Asbjørnsen and Moe's collection into English is by American author and translator Tiina Nunnally. Released in 2019, Nunnally's work is the first new English translation in over 150 years, and the first to include all 60 original tales.[21][22] It was published by the University of Minnesota Press, and entitled, "The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe" by Tiina Nunnally. It included a foreword by Neil Gaiman. In the edition's foreword, author Neil Gaiman wrote of Nunnally's translation, "Each story feels honed, as if it were recently collected from a storyteller who knew how to tell it and who had, in turn, heard it from someone who knew how to tell it." Nunnally's 2019 translation received considerable praise, from sources including the Journal of Folklore Research and the Wall Street Journal.[22]

## List of Norwegian folktales

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### Norske Folkeeventyr

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Legend:

* "NF#" – Tale number as they appear in Asbjørnsen and Moe's Norske Folkeeventyr
* "Modern Norwegian Title" – Modernized spelling (conforms with Projekt Runeberg e-texts).[23]
* "AT index" – Aarne–Thompson classification system index for folktale type.
* "Da#" – Tale number as appears in Dasent's translation, usable as sort key.[15]
* "Br." "Iversen & Nor." "Str. & Martens" "Nunn." – the Braekstad, Iversen & Norman, Stroebe & Martens, and Nunnally translations.

Norske Folkeeventyr  NF#  | Modern Norwegian Title  | AT index  | Da#  | English translated title (Dasent)  | Alternate translations

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1 | Askeladden som stjal sølvendene til trollet[f][24] | AT 328 | 32 | "Boots and the Troll" | "About Ash Lad, Who Stole the Troll's Silver Ducks, Coverlet, and Golden Harp" (Nunn.)
2 | Gjertrudsfuglen | AT 751A | 31 | "Gertrude's Bird" | "The Gjertrud Bird" (Nunn.)
3 | Fugl Dam | AT 301 | 55 | "The Big Bird Dan" | "The Griffin" (Nunn.)
4 | Spurningen[g] | AT 853 | 19 | "Taming the Shrew" | "The Quandary" (Nunn.)
5 | Rike Per Kremmer | AT 461 | 30 | "Rich Peter the Pedlar" | "Richman Peddler Per" (Nunn.)
6 | Askeladden som kappåt med trollet | AT 1000 | 5 | "The Boy Who Had an Eating Match with a Troll" | "Ash Lad, Who Competed with the Troll" (Nunn.); "The Ash Lad Who Had an Eating Match with the Troll" (Iversen & Nor. 4)
7 | Gutten som gikk til nordenvinden og krevde igjen melet | AT 563 | 34 | "The Lad Who Went to the North Wind" | "About the Boy Who Went to the North Wind and Demanded the Flour Back" (Nunn.); "The Lad and the North Wind" (Br. 18)
8 | Jomfru Maria som gudmor | AT 710 | 27 | "The Lassie and Her Godmother" | "The Virgin Mary as Godmother" (Nunn.); "The Child of Mary" (Str. & Martens 10[26])
9 | De tre prinsesser i Hvittenland | AT 400 | 26 | "The Three Princesses of Whiteland" | "The Three Princesses in White Land" (Nunn.); "The Three Princesses in Whiteland" (Str. & Martens 17)
10 | Somme kjerringer er slike | AT 1384 | 24 | "Not a Pin to Choose Between Them" | "Some Women Are Like That" (Nunn.)
11 | Hver synes best om sine barn | AT 247 | 25 | "One's Own Children Are Always Prettiest" | "Everyone Thinks Their Own Children Are Best" (Nunn.)
12 | En frierhistorie | AT 1459 | 14 | "How One Went Out to Woo" | "A Tale of Courtship" (Nunn.)
13 | De tre mostrene | AT 501 | 28 | "The Three Aunts" | ibid. (Nunn.)
14 | Enkesønnen | AT 314 | 44 | "The Widow's Son" | "The Widow's Son" (Nunn.); (Br. 26)
15 | Manndatteren og kjerringdatteren [no] | AT 480 | 17 | "The Two Step-Sisters" | "The Husband’s Daughter and the Wife’s Daughter" (Nunn.)
16 | Hanen og høna i nøtteskogen | AT 2021 | 54 | "The Cock and Hen a-Nutting" | "The Rooster and the Hen in the Nut Forest" (Nunn.)
17 | Bjørnen og reven: | — | N/A | (Bear and Fox stories) | "The Bear and the Fox" (Nunn.)
17.1 |  Hvorfor bjørnen er stubbrumpet; | AT 2 | 23 | "Why the Bear Is Stumpy-Tailed" | "Why the Bear Has a Stump of a Tail" (Nunn.)
17.2 |  Reven snyter bjørnen for julekosten | AT 15 | 57 | "Bruin and Reynard" | "The Fox Cheats the Bear Out of His Christmas Meal" (Nunn.)
18 | Gudbrand i Lia | AT 1415 | 21 | "Gudbrand on the Hill-side" | "Gudbrand Slope" (Nunn.); "Gudbrand of the Hillside" (Iversen & Nor. 9)
19 | Kari Trestakk | AT 510AB | 50 | "Katie Woodencloak" | "Kari Stave-Skirt" (Nunn.); "Kari Woodencoat" (Str. & Martens 19)
20 | Reven som gjeter | AT 37 | 10 | "The Fox as Herdsman" | "The Fox as Shepherd" (Nunn.)
21 | Smeden som de ikke torde slippe inn i helvete | AT 330 | 16 | "The Master-Smith" | "The Blacksmith They Didn’t Dare Let Into Hell" (Nunn.); "The Smith They Didn't Dare Let Into Hell" (Sehmsdorf);[27] "The Smith and the Devil" (Br. 14)
22 | Hanen og høna | AT 2075 | 15 | "The Cock and Hen" | "The Rooster and the Hen" (Nunn.)
23 | Hanen, gauken og århanen | AT 120 | 29 | "The Cock, the Cuckoo, and the Blackcock" | "The Rooster, the Cuckoo, and the Black Grouse" (Nunn.)
24 | Lillekort | AT 303 | 20 | "Shortshanks" | "Lillekort" (Nunn.)
25 | Dukken i gresset | AT 402 | 52 | "Doll i' the Grass" | "The Doll in the Grass" (Nunn.)
26 | Pål Andrestua | AT 1725 | 58 | "Tom Totherhouse" | "Paal Next-Door" (Nunn.)
27 | Soria Moria slott | AT 400 | 56 | "Soria Moria Castle" | ibid. (Nunn.); (Iversen & Nor. 12); (Str. & Martens 36)
28 | Herreper | AT 545B | 42 | "Lord Peter" | "Sir Per" (Nunn.); "Squire Per" (Iversen & Nor. 25)
29 | Vesle Åse Gåsepike | AT 870A | 59 | "Little Annie the Goose-Girl" | "Little Aase Goosegirl" (Nunn.)
30 | Gutten og fanden | AT 1158 | 53 | "The Lad and the Devil" | "The Boy and the Devil" (Nunn.); "The Lad and the Devil" (Br. 4); "The Young Fellow and the Devil" (Str. & Martens 28)
31 | De syv folene | AT 471 | 43 | "The Seven Foals" | ibid. (Nunn.)
32 | Giske | AT 1353 | 33 | "Goosey Grizzel" | "Gidske" (Nunn.)
33 | De tolv villender | AT 451 | 8 | "The Twelve Wild Ducks" | ibid. (Nunn.); (Iversen & Nor. 15)
34 | Mestertyven | AT 1525A-F | 35 | "The Master Thief" | ibid. (Nunn.)
35 | Høna tripper i berget | AT 311 | 3 | "The Old Dame and her Hen" | "The Three Sisters Who Were Taken Into the Mountain" (Nunn.)
36 | Risen som ikke hadde noe hjerte på seg | AT 302 | 9 | "The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body" | "About the Giant Troll Who Never Carried His Heart With Him" (Nunn.); "The Giant who had no Heart" (Br. 7); "Anent the Giant Who Did Not Have His Heart About Him" (Str. & Martens 16)
37 | Grimsborken | AT 531 | 40 | "Dapplegrim" | "Dappleband" (Nunn.)
38 | Det har ingen nød med den som alle kvinnfolk er glad i | AT 580 | 36 | "The Best Wish" | "Nothing is Needed by the One That All Women Love" (Nunn.)
39 | Askeladden som fikk prinsessen til å løgste seg | AT 852 | 7 | "Boots Who Made the Princess Say, 'That's A Story'" | "Ash Lad, Who Got the Princess to Say He Was Lying" (Nunn.); "The Ash Lad who made the Princess Say "You're a Liar" " (Iversen & Nor. 18); "Ashiepattle who made the Princess tell the Truth at last" (Br. 28)
40 | De tre bukkene Bruse | AT 122E | 37 | "Three Billy Goats Gruff" | "The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Who Were Supposed to Go Up to the Mountain Pasture to Fatten Up" (Nunn.); "The Three Billy Goats who went up into the Hills to get Fat" (Br. 15)
41 | Østenfor sol og vestenfor måne | AT 425 | 4 | "East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon" | ibid. (Nunn.); (Br. 27); (Str. & Martens 22)
42 | Høna som skulle til Dovre forat ikke allverden skulle forgå | AT 20C | 49 | "The Cock and Hen That Went to the Dovrefell" | "The Hen Who Had to Go to Dovre Mountain, or Else the Whole World Would Perish" (Nunn.)
43 | Mannen som skulle stelle hjemme | AT 1408 | 39 | "The Husband Who Was to Mind the House" | "The Man Who Had to Keep House" (Nunn.); "The Man who was going to Mind the House" (Br. 5)
44 | Tommeliten | AT 700 | 51 | "Thumbikin" | "Tom Thumb" (Nunn.)
45 | Håken Borkenskjegg | AT 900 | 6 | "Hacon Grizzlebeard" | "Haaken Speckled-Beard" (Nunn.)
46 | Mestermø | AT 313 | 11 | "The Mastermaid" | "Master Maiden" (Nunn.); "Master Girl" (Str. & Martens 15)
47 | Vel gjort og ille lønnet | AT 154 | 38 | "Well Done and Ill Paid" | "Well Done and Poorly Rewarded" (Nunn.)
48 | Tro og Utro | AT 613 | 1 | "True and Untrue" | ibid. (Nunn.)
49 | Per, Pål og Espen Askeladd | AT 577 | 46 | "Boots and His Brothers" | "Per and Paal and Esben Ash Lad" (Nunn.)
50 | Kvernen som står og maler på havsens bunn | AT 565 | 2 | "Why the Sea is Salt" | "The Mill That Keeps Grinding at the Bottom of the Sea" (Nunn.); "The Mill that Grinds at the bottom of the Sea" (Iversen & Nor. 30)
51 | Jomfruen på glassberget | AT 530 | 13 | "The Princess on the Glass Hill" | "The Maiden on the Glass Mountain" (Nunn.)
52 | Smørbukk | AT 327C | 18 | "Buttercup" | "Butterball" (Nunn.); "Smorbukk (Butterball)" (Iversen & Nor. 11)
53 | Store-Per og Vesle-Per | AT 1535 | 47 | "Big Peter and Little Peter" | "Big-Per and Little-Per" (Nunn.)
54 | Lurvehette | AT 711 | 48 | "Tatterhood" | "Ragged-Cap" (Nunn.)
55 | Buskebrura | AT 403 | 45 | "Bushy Bride" | "The Bushy Bride" (Nunn.)
56 | Kjetta på Dovre | AT 1161 | 12 | "The Cat on the Dovrefjell" | "The Tabby-Cat on Dovre Mountain" (Nunn.)
57 | Bonde Værskjegg | AT 325 | 41 | "Farmer Weathersky" | "Farmer Weather-Beard" (Nunn.)
58 | Det blå båndet | AT 590 | 22 | "The Blue Belt" | "The Blue Twine" (Nunn.)
59 | Den rettferdige firskilling | AT 1651 | 62 | "The Honest Penny" | "The Honest Four-Skilling Coin" (Nunn.); "The Four-Shilling Piece" (Str. & Martens 12)[28]
60 | Han far sjøl i stua | AT 168A | 66 | "Father Bruin in the Corner" | "The Old Man of the House" (Nunn.)

### Norske Folkeeventyr Ny Samling

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New Collection. The NF# will be given contiguous from the original collection.

NF Ny Samling  NF#  | Modern Norwegian Title  | AT index  | Da#  | English translated title (Dasent)[16] | Alternate translations

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61 | Væren og grisen som skulle til skogs og bo for seg selv[29] | AT 130 | 101 | "The Sheep and the Pig Who Set up House" | "The Ram and the Pig who went into the Woods to live by Themselves" (Iversen & Nor. 23)
62 | Venner i liv og død | AT 470 | 86 | "Friends in Life and Death" |
63 | Gutten som skulle tjene tre år uten lønn | AT 560 | 88 | "Three Years without Wages" | "The Youth Who Was to Serve Three Years Without Pay" (Str. & Martens 33)
64 | Kjerringa mot strømmen | AT 1365AB | 94 | "Goody Gainst-the-stream" | "The Old Woman against the Stream" (Iversen & Nor. 20)
65 | Den syvende far i huset | AT 726 | 87 | "The Father of the Family" | "The Seventh Father of the House" (Iversen & Nor. 24); "The Seven Fathers in the House" (Br. 11)
66 | Tre sitroner | AT 408 | 84 | "The Three Lemons" | ibid. (Str. & Martens 3)
67 | Kjæresten i skogen | AT 955 | 97 | "The Sweetheart in the Wood" |
68 | Ikke kjørende og ikke ridende | AT 875 | 95 | "How to Win a Prince" | "Not Driving and not Riding" (Iversen & Nor. 26)
69 | Skipperen og Gamle-Erik | AT 1179 | 93 | "The Skipper and Old Nick" | "The Skipper and Sir Urian" (Str. & Martens 32)
70 | Gutten som gjorde seg til løve, falk og maur | AT 302 | 96 | "Boots and the Beasts" | "The Boy Who Became a Lion, a Falcon, and an Ant"(Lunge-Larsen)[30]
71 | Tobakksgutten | AT 611 | 81 | "Master Tobacco" |
72 | Gullslottet som hang i luften | AT 531 | 102 | "The Golden Palace That Hung in the Air" | "The Golden Castle that Hung in the Air" (Iversen & Nor. 6)
73 | Haren som hadde vært gift | AT 96 | 76 | "The Hare and the Heiress" | "The Hare who had been Married" (Iversen & Nor. 14)
74 | Bjørnen og reven: | N/A |  | The Bear and the Fox (Part of "Peter's Beast Stories") |
74.1 |  Slipp granrot og ta i revefot | AT 5 | 77 | "Slip Root, Catch Reynard's Foot" |
74.2 |  De vedder om flesk og humlebol | AT 7 | 75 | "Pork and Honey" | "The Bear and the Fox Who Made a Bet" (Iversen & Nor. 1)
74.3 |  De skulle ha åker i sameie | AT 1030 | 79 | "Bruin and Reynard Partners" |
74.4 |  Mikkel vil smake hestekjøtt | AT 47A | 80 | "Reynard Wants to Taste Horse-Flesh" |
75 | Bamse Brakar | AT 116 | 78 | "Bruin Goodfellow" | "Brave Old Bruin" (Br. 12)
76 | Rødrev og Askeladden | AT 300 | 99 | "Osborn Boots and Mr. Glibtongue" |
77 | Gutten som ville fri til datter til mor i kroken | AT 402 | 104 | "Mother Roundabout's Daughter" | "The Youth Who Wanted to Win the Daughter of the Mother in the Corner" (Str. & Martens 34)
78 | Dumme menn og troll til kjerringer | AT 1406 | 90 | "Silly Men and Cunning Wives" | "Foolish Men and Scolding Wives" (Br. 22)
79 | Askeladden og de gode hjelperne | AT 513 | 106 | "Boots and his Crew" | "The Ash Lad and the Good Helpers" (Iversen & Nor. 8)
80 | Gutten som ville bli handelskar | AT 1538 | 100 | "This is the Lad who Sold the Pig" |
81 | Hårslå, som aldri ville hjem gå | AT 2015 | 98 | "How they Got Hairlock Home" |
82 | Kullbrenneren | AT 1641 | 82 | "The Charcoal Burner" | ibid. (Br. 33)
83 | Gullfuglen | AT 550 | 110 | "The Golden Bird " | ibid. (Iversen & Nor. 5)
84 | Den grønne ridder | AT 432 | 105 | "The Green Knight" |
85 | Tyrihans som fikk kongsdatteren til å le | AT 571 | 91 | "Taper Tom" | "Taper Tom - Who Made the Princess Laugh" (Iversen & Nor. 28); "Hans who made the Princess Laugh" (Br. 30)
86 | Presten og klokkeren | AT 922 | 85 | "The Priest and the Clerk" | "The Parson and the Sexton" (Str. & Martens 31, Nor. 21); "The Parson and the Clerk" (Br. 23)
87 | Gale-Mattis | AT 1696 | 108 | "Silly Matt" |
88 | Klokkeren i bygda vår | AT 1537 | 89 | "Our Parish Clerk" |
89 | Småguttene som traff trollene på Hedalsskogen | AT 303 | 92 | "The Trolls in Hedale Wood" | "The Boys Who Met the Trolls in the Hedal Woods" (Iversen & Nor. 13); "The Lads who Met the Trolls in the Hedale Wood" (Br. 2)
90 | Kvitebjørn kong Valemon | AT 425 | 109 | "King Valemon, the White Bear" | "Valemon - The White Bear King" (Iversen & Nor. 16)
91 | Skrinet med det rare i | AT 2250 | 83 | "The Box with Something Pretty in It" | "The Box with the Funny Thing in it" (Br. 25)
92 | Hjemmusa og fjellmusa | AT 112 | 107 | "The Town-mouse and the Fell-mouse" | "The House Mouse and the Country Mouse" (Iversen & Nor. 19)
93 | God dag, mann! -- Økseskaft | AT 1968J | 68 | "Goodman Axehaft" | "'Good Day, Fellow!' 'Axe Handle!'" (Iversen & Nor. 7)
94 | Hanen og reven | AT 61 | 67 | "Reynard and Chanticleer " |
95 | Verden lønner ikke annerledes | AT 155 | 73 | "The Way of the World" |
96 | Mumle Gåsegg | AT 650A | 65 | "Grumblegizzard" | "The Greedy Youngster" (Br. 10); "Murmur Goose-egg"(Str. & Martens 23)
97 | Veslefrikk med fela | AT 592 | 103 | "Little Freddy With his Fiddle" | "Little Freddie and his Fiddle" (Iversen & Nor. 10)
98 | Gjete kongens harer | AT 570 | 60 | "Osborn's Pipe" | "Ashiepattle and the King's Hares" (Br. 19): "The King's Hares" (Str. & Martens 25)
99 | Krambugutten med gammelostlasten | AT 506 | 70 | "The Shopboy and His Cheese" |
100 | Følgesvennen | AT 507A | 69 | "The Companion" | "The Companion" (Iversen & Nor. 2); "The Comrade" (Str. & Martens 6)
101 | Peik | AT 1542 | 71 | "Peik" | ibid. (Br. 21)
102 | Kjetta som var så fæl til å ete | AT 2027 | 64 | "The Greedy Cat" | The Cat Who Could Eat So Much (Str. & Martens 21)
103 | Hanen som falt i bryggekaret | AT 2022 | 63 | "The Death of Chanticleer" |
104 | Pannekaken | AT 2025 | 74 | "The Pancake" | ibid. (Br. 8); "The Chronicle of the Pancake" (Str. & Martens 35)
105 | Gutten med øldunken | AT 332 | 72 | "Death and the Doctor" |
106 | Fanden og futen | AT 1186 | N/A | N/A | "The Devil and the Baliff" (Iversen & Nor. 3)
107 | Stabbursnøkkelen i rokkehodet | AT 1453 | N/A | N/A | "The Key in the Distaff" (Iversen & Nor. 29)
108 | Tsju pus, vil du ned av bordet! | AT 1456 | N/A | N/A | (Shoo cat, off the table)
109 | Sju år gammal graut | AT 1462 | N/A | N/A | (Seven-year-old porridge)
110 | Herremannsbruden | AT 1440 | N/A | N/A | "The Squire's Bride" (Iversen & Nor. 27)

### Norske Huldre-Eventyr

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Legend:

* "Hu#" – Tale number in Norske Huldre-Eventyr (1845–48), with continuous numbering for the "second collection" (1866)
* "Modern Norwegian Title" – Modernized spelling (conforms to Projekt Runeberg e-texts).
* "Year" – Year of collection. Enumerated in the index and under the title in the 3rd edition (1870).[31]
* "Br#" – Tale number as appears in Braekstad's Round the Yule Log.
* "Str. & Martens" – Stroebe & Martens translation.
* "Chr. & Iversen" – Christiansen ed., translated by Pat Shaw Iversen.[32]

Huldre-Eventyr Part 1  Hu#  | Modern Norwegian Title  | Year  | Br#  | English translated title (Braekstad)  | Alternate translations

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Hu1 | Kvernsagn[33] (cf. Kvernknurr [no]) | 1843 | 17 | "Legends of the Mill" | "The Haunted Mill" (first tale and a composite of the second and third tales, Dasent); "Self Did It" (second tale, Str. & Martens 14)
Hu2 | Ekebergkongen | 1838 |  |  |
Hu3 | Matthias skytters historier | 1838 | 3 | "Matthias the Hunter's Stories" |
Hu4 | Berthe Tuppenhaugs fortellinger[34] | 1843 | 13 | "Mother Bertha's Stories" | "The Troll Wedding" (Str. & Martens 8)[35]
Hu5 | En aftenstund i et proprietærkjøkken | 1845 | 29 | "An Evening in the Squire's Kitchen" | "The Troll-Wife" (Str. & Martens 24)[36]
Hu6 | Huldreætt | 1843 |  |  |
Hu7 | En halling med kvannerot | 1845 |  |  |
Hu8 | Lundeætten | 1845 |  |  |
Hu9 | En gammeldags juleaften | 1843 | 1 | "An Old-Fashioned Christmas Eve" |
Hu10 | En natt i Nordmarken | 1845 |  |  | "The Neighbor Underground" (Str. & Martens 4)[37]
Hu11 | En aften ved Andelven | 1845 |  |  | "The Hat of the Huldres" (Str. & Martens 9)[38]
Hu12 | Graverens fortellinger | 1845 |  |  | "Following the Witch" and "The Witches's Sabbath" (Chr. & Iversen 17a 17b)
Hu13 | Jutulen og Johannes Blessom | 1844 | 24 | "The Giant and Johannes Blessom" | "The Lord of the Hill and John Blessom" (Str. & Martens 27); "The Jutul and Johannes Blessom" (Chr. & Iversen 35)
Hu14 | Fra fjellet og seteren | 1845 |  |  |
Huldre-Eventyr Part 2  Hu#  | Modern Norwegian Title  | Year  | Br#  | English translated title (Braekstad)  | Alternate translations

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Hu15 | Høyfjellsbilleder:  | 1848 |  |  |
Hu15.1 | 1: En søndagskveld til seters  |  |  |  | "Ola Storbaekkjen" (Str. & Martens 20)
Hu15.2 | 2: Rensdyrjakt ved Rondane  |  | 16 | "Peter Gynt" |
Hu16 | Plankekjørerne  | 1848 |  |  | "Making the Devil Carry the Cat" and "The Cardplayers and the Devil" (Chr. & Iversen 13 14)
Hu17 | En tiurleik i Holleia  | 1848 | 9 | "A Day with the Capercailzies" |
Hu18 | En signekjerring  | 1848 | 32 | "The Witch" |
Hu19 | En sommernatt på Krokskogen  | 1848 | 31 | A Summer Night in a Norwegian Forest |
Hu20 | Tatere  | 1848 |  |  |
Hu21 | En aften i nabogården  | 1853 |  |  |
Hu22 | Fra Sognefjorden  | 1855 |  |  |
Hu23 | Til Haus  |  |  |  |
Hu23.1 | Skarvene fra Utrøst | 1849 | 6 | "The Cormorants of Udröst" | "The Isle of Udrost" (Str. & Martens 2); "The Cormorants from Utröst" (Chr. & Iversen 26)
Hu23.2 | Tuftefolket på Sandflesa  | 1851 |  |  | "Lucky Andrew" (Str. & Martens 30); "The Tufte-Folk on Sandflesa" (Chr. & Iversen 27)
Hu23.3 | Makrelldorg  | 1851 | 20 | "Mackerel Trolling" | "Storm Magic" (Str. & Martens 11)[39]
Hu23.4 | På høyden av Aleksandria  | 1852 |  |  | "Hexe Pfarrerin" (Stroebe, in German)[40]

### Other pieces

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Tales not from any of the proceeding series that are usually included alongside them in later collections:

From other works  #  | Modern Norwegian Title  | Year  | AT Motif  | English translated title (various)  | Alternate translations

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* | De tre kongsdøtre i berget det blå (from Eventyrbog for Børn 1883-1887, Asbjørnsen and Moltke Moe edd.)[41] |  |  | "The Three Princesses in the Mountain in the Blue" (Iversen & Nor. 31) |
* | En prestehistorie (from «Dybwads illustrerte Folkekalender 1881», Moltke Moe.) |  |  |  |
* | Prinsessen som ingen kunne målbinde (from Eventyrbog for Børn 1883-1887, Asbjørnsen and Moltke Moe edd.)[42][h] |  | AT 853 | "The Princess who always had to have the Last Word " (Iversen & Nor. 22) |
* | En vestlandsk Skovdal (from "Fra nordiske Digtere. Et Album" 1869) |  |  |  |
* | Fiskersønnene (from «Dybwads illustrerte Folkekalender 1881») |  | AT 303 |  |
* | Grisen og levemåten hans (from Barne-Eventyr 1909, Moltke Moe ed.) |  | AT 211 | "The Pig and his Way of Life" (Kari B. Svendsen, 1985)[43] |
* | Gullfebla (from Juletræet for 1850) |  |  |  |
* | Jomfru Maria og svalen (from Eventyrbog for Barn 1883-1337. Asbjørnsen and Moltke Moe edd.)[44] |  |  |  |
* | Julebesøket i prestegården (from Juletræet for 1851) |  |  |  |
* | Prestens mor |  |  |  |
* | Reve-enka (from Barne-Eventyr 1909\. Moltke Moe.) |  |  |  |
* | Vårherre og St. Peder på vandring (Et bömisk eventyr.) (from Nord und Süd 1858) |  |  |  |

## Influence

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The Soria Moria castle, which appeared in Dasent's translations of the tales, inspired J. R. R. Tolkien to use the name Moria for a fabulous subterranean complex in his Middle-earth stories.[45]

## Footnotes

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### Explanatory notes

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1. ^ At the same time the language in the tales also contained many words from Norwegian dialects, which helped toward making a hybrid of older Danish and eastern Norwegian dialects in particular, a language variant that was developed in stages into today's Norwegian bokmål, or "book tongue." Through the later 1800s and the 1900s, bokmål became less Danish through language reforms, and the language of Asbjørnsen and Moe's folk tales followed suit. Their language has been modernized many times. Also, many of these tales were published by Det Norske Samlaget in 1995 in New Norwegian, the most distinctly Norwegian of the two official variants of written Norwegian, and in many cases the language form that comes closest to the tales as recorded by Asbjørnsen and Moe.
2. ^ The appended "Fortegnelse over Illustrationerne og Kunstnerne" gives credit to each artwork, naming the engravers such as H. P. Hansen and Frederik Hendriksen [no] whose signatures appear in the engravings.[11]
3. ^ Friedrich Bresemann's German translation of 1847[14] appeared prior to Dasent's English in 1849.
4. ^ Dasent splits the two subtales of Bjørnen og reven into 2 independent tales, which brings his tale count to 59.
5. ^ Dasent's Tales from the Fjeld count 51 tales = 2 original collection + 45 new collection + 3 (counts Bjørnen og reven as 4 separate bear and fox stories) + 1 (The Haunted Mill which is "Kværensagn" taken from Asbjornsen's "Norske Huldre-Eventyr og Folkesagn")
6. ^ The title character was changed from "Askepot" in the first edition to Akeladden in later editions.
7. ^ Another "slightly different variant" is Prinsessen som ingen kunne målbinde, in Eventyrbog for børn, volume 3.[25]
8. ^ Prinsessen som ingen kunne målbinde is a slight variant of the tale Spurningen from Norske Folkeeventyr,[25] and replaces it in most subsequent publications.

### References

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#### Citations

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1. ^ a b c Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Asbjörnsen, Peter Christen" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
2. ^ "[Moe] met Asbjørnsen first when he was fourteen years of age."[1] so 1827.
3. ^ Rudvin, Mette (c. 1999), Norske Folkeeventyr. A Polysystemic Approach to Folk Literature in Nineteenth-Century Norway (PDF), "One of the reasons the Asbjørnsen and Moe corpus received such national acclaim and consensus was precisely that it embodied both the myth of a national identity and of a national language in a relatively conservative (i.e. Danish) form, and therefore functioned as a compromise between an emerging national identity and the maintenance of an (elite) conservative linguistic and literary form. ... Asbjørnsen and Moe's translation policy was instrumental in laying the foundation for a new and viable national language form which steadily developed further and further away from the Danicized language that represented the colonized past into a new, independent language - neither Danish, nor rural dialect."
4. ^ a b c Wells (2013), pp. 35–36
5. ^ Dorson, Richard (1964), "Preface", in Christiansen, R. Th. (ed.), Folktales of Norway, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, p. x, "[Asbjørnsen and Moe's] end product so appealed to Jacob Grimm that he described them as the best Märchen in print", cited in Rudvin (c. 1999), p. 25n
6. ^ Rudvin (c. 1999), pp. 25–26.
7. ^ Rudvin (c. 1999), p. 26n.
8. ^ Rudvin (c. 1999), p. 41.
9. ^ Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen, ed. (1866). Norske huldre-eventyr og folkesagn: anden samling. Vol. 2 (2nd ed.). Christiania: P.J. Steensballes Forlag.
10. ^ Asbjørnsen (1879).
11. ^ Asbjørnsen (1879), pp. 339–441, Asbjørnsen (1896), pp. 364–367
12. ^ "Enchanting Norwegian Folk Tales in New English Translation". News of Norway. Vol. 18, no. 5\. 13 April 1961. p. 55.
13. ^ Iversen & Norman (1990) harvp error: no target: CITEREFIversenNorman1990 (help) [1960], Introduction, quoted in News of Norway.[12]
14. ^ Bresemann (1847).
15. ^ a b Dasent (1859).
16. ^ a b Dasent (1874).
17. ^ Dasent (1874), p. vi.
18. ^ Braekstad (1881).
19. ^ Stroebe (1922a).
20. ^ Iversen & Norman (1990) harvp error: no target: CITEREFIversenNorman1990 (help) [1960]
21. ^ Nunnally (2019).
22. ^ a b "The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe". University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved 2025-04-13.
23. ^ Asbjornsen and Moe. Norske Folkeeventyr – via Project Runeberg.
24. ^ Asbjørnsen & Moe (1843) (1st ed.) "Om Askepot, som stjal Troldets Sølvænder, Sengetæppe og Guldharpe". 1: pp. 1–7
• Asbjørnsen, Moe & Moe (1904a) (7th ed.) "Om Askeladden som ..." . 1: pp. 1–7.
25. ^ a b Logeman, Henri [in Dutch] (June 1914), "Another Three Notes on 'Peer Gynt'", Publications of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, 1 (5): 215, JSTOR 40914922
26. ^ Stroebe & Martens (1922), p. 56
27. ^ Sehmsdorf, Henning K. (1986). "The Smith They Didn't Dare Let Into Hel". Short Stories from Norway, 1850-1900. Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Wisconsin. p. 6.
28. ^ Stroebe & Martens (1922), p. 69\. "The Honest Four-Shilling Piece" is the verbatim title given in footnote.
29. ^ Asbjørnsen & Moe (1871). "Væderen og Grisen, som skulde til Skovs og bo for sig selv". pp. 1–4; Asbjørnsen & Moe (1883). "Væderen og Grisen (ibid.) ..". pp. 1–7. Asbjørnsen & Moe (1908). "Væren og grisen som skuld til skogs og bo for sig selv". pp. 7–12.
30. ^ The Troll With no Heart in His Body. Translated by Lunge-Larsen, Lise. HMH Books for Young Readers. 1999. ISBN 0395913713.
31. ^ Asbjørnsen (1870).
32. ^ Christiansen (2016).
33. ^ Asbjørnsen (1859). "Kværnsagn". Huldreeventyr 1: 1–16; Asbjørnsen (1870) pp. 1–10
34. ^ Asbjørnsen (1859). "Signekjærrings Fortrællinger". Huldreeventyr 1: 39–55; Asbjørnsen (1870) "Berthe Tuppenhaugs fortællinger" pp. 26–36.
35. ^ Translation starts at: Huldre-Eventyr (1859). "Signekjærrings Fortrællinger", 1: 50, beginning: "Det var en sommer for lang, lang tid sia, de låg til seters med krøttera fra Melbustad oppe på Halland.."; Asbjørnsen (1870), pp. 33ff
36. ^ Translation starts at: Huldre-Eventyr (1859). "En Aftenstund i et Proprietairkjøkken", 1: 77 beginning "For mange Aar siden.. bøede der et Par gamle vestaaende Folk paa en Gaard oppe paa Hadeland"; Asbjørnsen (1870), pp. 50ff
37. ^ Translation starts at: Huldre-Eventyr (1859). "En Nat i Nordmaken", 1: 149 beginning: "Der var en bonde, han boede i Thelemarken,.."; Asbjørnsen (1870), pp. 99ff
38. ^ Translation starts at: Huldre-Eventyr (1859). "En Aften ved Andelven", 1: 157 beginning: "Det var et stort Bryllup i en Gaard.."; Asbjørnsen (1870), pp. 104ff
39. ^ Translation starts at: Huldre-Eventyr (1859). "Makreldorging", I: 248 beginning "Han havde faret med en Skipper som Youngmand hele Sommeren"; Asbjørnsen (1870), pp. 355ff
40. ^ Translation starts at: Huldre-Eventyr (1859). "Tilhaus IV. Paa Høiden af Alexandria" I: 281, beginning: "Det var en Præstegaard i en Bygd ved Christianssand"; Asbjørnsen (1870), pp. 364ff
41. ^ Eventyrbog (1883–1887) 3: 1–29; "De tre kongsdøtre i berget det blaa" Eventyrbok 2nd ed. (1908) 3: 5–27;
42. ^ "Prindsessen som Ingen kunde maalbinde" Eventyrbog (1883–1887) 3: 97–101; "Prinsessen som Ingen kunde maalbinde" Eventyrbok 2nd ed. (1908) 3
43. ^ Svendsen, Kari B. (1985). Tales of the Norsemen : folk tales collected by Asbjorsen and Moe, selected and retold by. Gyldendal Norsk Forlag. pp. 9–. ISBN 8205163375.
44. ^ "Jomfru Maria og svalen" Eventyrbog (1883–1887) 2: 83–92
45. ^ J. R. R. Tolkien (1981), The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, George Allen & Unwin, letter no. 297 (August 1967) p. 384; ISBN 0-04-826005-3

#### Bibliography

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Texts

* Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen; Moe, Jørgen, eds. (1843). Norske folke-eventyr. Vol. 1\. Christiania: Johan Dahl. Nasjonalbiblioteket copy \- #1 to Die tre Bukkerne (here #41)
* 1st edition, 2den Deels 1ste Hefte \- #42 to Jomfruen på glassberget (here #52.)
* 2nd edition, Christiania: Johan Dahls Forlag (1852) copy
* 3rd edition, Christiania: Jacob Dybwad (1866)
* 4th ed., Christiania: Jacob Dybwad, (1868-1871)
* 5th ed., Christiania: Jacob Dybwad (1874)
* 7th ed., Christiania: H. Aschehoug & Co (1904)
* Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen; Moe, Jørgen; Moe, Moltke, eds. (1904a). Norske folke-eventyr. Vol. 1 (7th ed.). Christiania: H. Aschehoug & Co.
* Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen; Moe, Jørgen; Moe, Moltke, eds. (1904b). Norske folke-eventyr. Vol. 2 (7th ed.). Christiania: H. Aschehoug & Co.

* Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen; Moe, Jørgen, eds. (1871). Norske folke-eventyr: ny samling. Dybwad i Komm.etext via Internet Archive
* 2nd edition, Kjøbenhavn: J. Jørgensen & Co. (1876)

* Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen, ed. (1859). Norske huldre-eventyr og folkesagn. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Christiania: P.J. Steensballes Forlag. \- base for the Stroebe (1922a) German translation.
* ——, ed. (1870). Norske huldre-eventyr og folkesagn (3rd ed.). Christiania: P.J. Steensballes Forlag.

* Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen, ed. (1879). Norske Folke- og Huldre-Eventyr. Kjøbenhavn: Gyldendalske. \- base for the Braekstad (1881) translation.
* ——, ed. (1896). Norske Folke- og Huldre-Eventyr (2nd ed.). Kjøbenhavn: Gyldendalske. \- non-Fraktur typeface

* Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen; Moe, Jørgen, eds. (1883). Eventyrbog for Børn. Norske Folkeeventyr. Vol. 1\. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag.
* Vol. 2 (1884) copy at HathiTrust
* Vol. 3 (1887)
* Vol. 1, 2nd ed., w/ Moltke Moe (1898)

* Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen; Moe, Jørgen, eds. (1908). Eventyrbok for børn: norske folkeeventyr. Vol. 1 (3rd ed.). Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag.
* Vol. 2 (1908)
* Vol. 3, 2nd ed. (1908)

Translations

* Braekstad, H. L., tr., ed. (1881). Round the Yule Log: Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales. Originally edited by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link) Nasjonalbiblioteket copy

* Bresemann, Friedrich, tr., ed. (1847). Norwegische Volksmährchen (in German). Vol. 1\. Asbjørnsen and Moe (orig. edd.); Ludwig Tieck (foreword). Berlin: M. Simion.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)

* Christiansen, Reidar, ed. (2016) [1964]. Folktales of Norway. Translated by Iversen, Pat Shaw. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 022637520X.

* Dasent, G. W., tr., ed. (1859). Popular Tales from the Norse. Asbjørnsen and Moe (2nd, enlarged ed.). Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
* Dasent, G. W., tr., ed. (1874). Tales from the Fjeld: A Second Series of Popular Tales. Asbjørnsen and Moe (orig. edd.). Chapman & Hall.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)

* Nunnally, Tiina, tr., ed. (2019). The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjornsen & Moe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 1-452-96455-6.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)

* Iversen, Pat Shaw, ed. (1990) [1960]. Norwegian Folktales. Translated by Norman, Carl. Asbjørnsen and Moe (orig. eds.). Pantheon Books. pp. 17–18\. ISBN 82-09-10598-1.

* Stroebe, Klara (1922a). Nordische Volksmärchen. Teil 1: Dänemark/Schweden (in German). Asbjornsen and Moe (orig. eds.). E. Diederichs. Teil 1 via Google Books
* Stroebe, Klara (1922b). Nordische Volksmärchen. Teil 2: Schweden (in German). Asbjornsen and Moe (orig. eds.). E. Diederichs. Teil 2 via Google Books

* Stroebe, Klara, ed. (1922). Norwegian Fairy Book. Translated by Martens, Frederick H. Asbjornsen and Moe (orig. eds.); George W. Hood (illus.). Frederick A. Stokes Company.; e-text via Internet

Other

* Wells, Marie (2013), "Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen, and Jørgen Moe", in Murray, Christopher John (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850, Routledge, pp. 35–36, ISBN 978-1135455798

## Further reading

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* Christiansen, Reidar Th. (1922). The Norwegian Fairytales: A Short Summary. Folklore Fellows Communications. Vol. 46\. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia.
* Hodne, Ørnulf [in Norwegian] (1984). The Types of the Norwegian Folktale. Universitetsforlaget.

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