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Not only does my annotated edition of The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe contain the collectors' notes from the first two original volumes (the folktales), but I have also compiled notes on every single folktale in the first two volumes, and every hulder tale and folk legend in the third volume.
Listen to @rorystarr reading the editor's note on “The Three Billy-Goats Bruse” from the first volume:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyyXVS0BSBI&t=925s
Then, of course, it’s just a tiny click to find out more about these huge books:
https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/the-complete-norwegian-folktales-and-legends-of-asbjornsen-moe
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Not only does my annotated edition of The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe contain the collectors' notes from the first two original volumes (the folktales), but I have also compiled notes on every single folktale in the first two volumes, and every hulder tale and folk legend in the third volume.
Listen to @rorystarr reading the editor's note on “The Three Billy-Goats Bruse” from the first volume:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyyXVS0BSBI&t=925s
Then, of course, it’s just a tiny click to find out more about these huge books:
https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/the-complete-norwegian-folktales-and-legends-of-asbjornsen-moe
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Not only does my annotated edition of The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe contain the collectors' notes from the first two original volumes (the folktales), but I have also compiled notes on every single folktale in the first two volumes, and every hulder tale and folk legend in the third volume.
Listen to @rorystarr reading the editor's note on “The Three Billy-Goats Bruse” from the first volume:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyyXVS0BSBI&t=925s
Then, of course, it’s just a tiny click to find out more about these huge books:
https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/the-complete-norwegian-folktales-and-legends-of-asbjornsen-moe
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Not only does my annotated edition of The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe contain the collectors' notes from the first two original volumes (the folktales), but I have also compiled notes on every single folktale in the first two volumes, and every hulder tale and folk legend in the third volume.
Listen to @rorystarr reading the editor's note on “The Three Billy-Goats Bruse” from the first volume:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyyXVS0BSBI&t=925s
Then, of course, it’s just a tiny click to find out more about these huge books:
https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/the-complete-norwegian-folktales-and-legends-of-asbjornsen-moe
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Not only does my annotated edition of The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe contain the collectors' notes from the first two original volumes (the folktales), but I have also compiled notes on every single folktale in the first two volumes, and every hulder tale and folk legend in the third volume.
Listen to @rorystarr reading the editor's note on “The Three Billy-Goats Bruse” from the first volume:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyyXVS0BSBI&t=925s
Then, of course, it’s just a tiny click to find out more about these huge books:
https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/the-complete-norwegian-folktales-and-legends-of-asbjornsen-moe
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Culture as represented in painting. One of these is not like the others: American, British, Norwegian.
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The first part of this video (before the beginning of the promoted content) explains nicely why I use dollars in my English translations of Norwegian folklore.
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«Odins Sleipner havde otte Ben, man denne Flab har fire Læber.» (Odin’s Sleipnir had eight legs, but this gob has four lips.) – Jørgen Moe on his fictitious, stereotypical raconteur, Gjerulv Tollakssen. The comparison alludes to the typical rapidity of the storytelling Moe encountered.
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When in his fifteenth year the boy had been confirmed, the troll came for him. He was to marry the troll’s daughter, as his father had agreed, the troll said. The boy did not agree, however; he had given his word to Clara, their neighbour’s daughter, and she had given him hers. He would by no means break his own promise, he said, no matter what his father’s had been all those years ago.
Upon hearing this, the troll grew angry, and transformed the boy into a white bear. “Go out into the forest,” it shrieked. “Wander there until you decide to fulfil your father’s promise and marry my daughter.”
When Clara heard of what the troll had done to her sweetheart, she determined to go out to find him. Her father and mother tried to prevent her, but she had to go, she said, and go she would. So she packed as much food as she could carry in her knapsack and set off into the forest to find the boy.
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The annotated edition of The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe
Details and links: https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/the-complete-norwegian-folktales-and-legends-of-asbjornsen-moe
See the attached toot for ten details.
#NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegends #Folklore #Folktales #Norway #FediBookFair
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Ten things you get in the annotated edition of The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe
1. Three chunky volumes (815 pages, 617 pages, and 665 pages).
2. Original prefaces from eight editions.
3. Jørgen Moe’s substantial introduction to the folktales, in which he discusses the origins of folk narratives, and how the Norwegian material exemplifies his ideas.
4. All 122 folktales Asbjørnsen & Moe published during their careers.
5. 28 hulder tales and folk legends, a genre Asbjørnsen defined, in which he embeds the legends of the hidden folk.
6. Approximately 350 illustrations by some of the most accomplished artists Norway has known, including Hans Gude, Erik Werenskiold and Theodor Kittelsen.
7. Asbjørnsen & Moe’s notes on the folktales, which detail the variant(s) the collectors used to compose each folktale, sketch out other variants they collected, and compare the Norwegian folktales with similar traditions from other regions.
8. Newly-researched editor’s notes, which identify the collector responsible for the composition of each text, give collection data, including tale type, geographical origin, collector, informant, and date of collection, sketch biographical details of informants, where known, give previous publication and translation details, trace historical and literary sources, and draw attention to points of particular interest.
9. Editor’s prefaces to each volume, which trace the publication history of the original volumes represented, as well as previous translations.
10. Comprehensive – perhaps even exhaustive – bibliographies to each volume.
Details and links: https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/the-complete-norwegian-folktales-and-legends-of-asbjornsen-moe
#NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegends #Folklore #Folktales #Norway #FediBookFair
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I have uploaded .pdf copies of both editions of The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe to ko-fi, where they are now available for purchase at less-than-half the cost of the Amazon paperback books.
Details and links on my Website here:
https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/the-complete-norwegian-folktales-and-legends-of-asbjornsen-moe
I think you should choose the annotated edition; here’s what you get:
1. Three chunky volumes (815 pages, 617 pages, and 665 pages).
2. Original prefaces from eight editions.
3. Jørgen Moe’s substantial introduction to the folktales, in which he discusses the origins of folk narratives, and how the Norwegian material exemplifies his ideas.
4. All 122 folktales Asbjørnsen & Moe published during their careers.
5. 28 hulder tales and folk legends, a genre Asbjørnsen defined, in which he embeds the legends of the hidden folk.
6. Approximately 350 illustrations by some of the most accomplished artists Norway has known, including Hans Gude, Erik Werenskiold and Theodor Kittelsen.
7. Asbjørnsen & Moe’s notes on the folktales, which detail the variant(s) the collectors used to compose each folktale, sketch out other variants they collected, and compare the Norwegian folktales with similar traditions from other regions.
8. Newly-researched editor’s notes, which identify the collector responsible for the composition of each text, give collection data, including tale type, geographical origin, collector, informant, and date of collection, sketch biographical details of informants, where known, give previous publication and translation details, trace historical and literary sources, and draw attention to points of particular interest.
9. Editor’s prefaces to each volume, which trace the publication history of the original volumes represented, as well as previous translations.
10. Comprehensive – perhaps even exhaustive – bibliographies to each volume.
#norwegianfolktales #norwegianlegends #folklore #folklorethursday #folktales @norwegianfolktales @folklore #fairytales @folklorethursday #bookstodon
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some days you eat the gnome, some days the gnome eats you…
thank gnome it's friday #dragon #gnome #NorwegianFolktales #HansPeterHansen #PeterChristenAsbjørnsen https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/dragon-door/
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Of course, the most famous of the #NorwegianFolktales for the seventh day of #FolktaleWeek2022 here on #Mastodon.
In my translation of “The Three Bill-Goats Bruse,” I have restored the goats’ proper name, but the action remains the same. Three goats, one troll, one bridge.
https://norwegianfolktales.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-three-billy-goats-gruff.html
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Day 6 of #FolktaleWeek2022 here on #Mastodon.
Sometimes in #NorwegianFolktales, a hero needs good help to win the princess from her fickle father. In “Askeladden and the Good Helpers” there is help to be found. #FolktaleWeek
https://norwegianfolktales.blogspot.com/2017/03/askeladden-and-good-helpers.html
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Are you looking for a present for that hard to satisfy reading horse (Norwegian: lesehest) in your life.
Try giving them #RegineNormann’s collection of 20 #folktales and #fairytales from #Arctic #Norway
Ringelihorn, a collection of #NorwegianFolktales.
http://nordlandsnatt.blogspot.com/2021/01/preorder-ringelihorn-and-other-tales.html
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Askeladden is at his wittiest when dealing with a troll in #NorwegianFolktales
“Askeladden and Red Fox,” for #FolkloreThursday.
https://norwegianfolktales.blogspot.com/2017/05/redfox-and-askeladden.html
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Day 4 of #FolktaleWeek2022 in #NorwegianFolktales, here on Mastodon.
A queen exchanges her twelve sons for a daughter. The daughter, when she is old enough to do so, sets off to save her brothers. #FolktaleWeek
“The Twelve Wild Ducks”
https://norwegianfolktales.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-twelve-wild-ducks.html
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Finnic and Nordic mythology meet in the next instalment of The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe. #NorwegianFolktales
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Day two of #FolktaleWeek2022 in #NorwegianFolktales.
When a boy gives away the three shillings he has earned, he receives three wishes. He wishes for a fiddle to make folk dance, a gun that hits everything he aims at, and the ability to get the first thing he asks for.
“Veslefrikk with His Fiddle” #FolktaleWeek
https://norwegianfolktales.blogspot.com/2017/10/veslefrikk-with-his-fiddle.html
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Let’s bring #FolktaleWeek2022 to Mastodon!
I have a few #NorwegianFolktales.
“The Golden Castle that Hung in the Air”
Portable castles, dragons, a unicorn, and a talking ass all help save the princesses from the trolls. #FolktaleWeek
https://norwegianfolktales.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-golden-castle-that-hung-in-air.html
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No, it must be a real fellow; he who commands the devil cannot be fed with chopped juniper and backboards, nor go in rags and nonsense. He has to understand his black book as well as his catechism, and then some. – Anders Smestadbakken
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An #introduction.
My name is in my username.
I translate and publish #NorwegianFolktales and legends. #NorwegianFolklore and #Folklore in general.
In my spare time, I'm a full time teacher in middle school.
I try to be easy-going, but will not tolerate any kind of bullying or harassment in my vicinity.
I stand with Ukraine, queer and transgender folk, women, and kids.
If you're not anti-fascist, you're no follower of mine.