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  • Norse Fairy & Folk Tales

    by Sir George Webbe Dasent, Charles John Tibbits, Katharine Pyle ...
    Meet gullible trolls, enterprising princesses and nefarious wizards in this treasury of 25 Norse fairy tales.Collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in the 19th century, these Norwegian stories are described by Jacob Grimm as "surpassing nearly all others." They include such well-loved tales as 'The Three Billy Goat's Gruff' and 'Taming the Shrew' and open a window into the beautiful ... Read more

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  • Norse Sagas

    Kings' Sagas: Saga of Olaf Haraldson, Saga of Magnus the Good, Sagas of Icelanders: Saga of the Greenlanders, Erik the Red's Saga, Legendary Sagas: Volsunga Saga, Frithiof's Saga

    by Snorri Sturluson, Anonymous ...
    Translated by W. C. Green, Muriel A.C. Press, John Coles, G. W. DaSent, William Morris, Eirikr Magnusson, John Sephton, George Webbe, W.G. Collingwood, J. Stefansson, F. York Powell, Edmund Head, Arthur Middleton Reeves, Samuel Laing ...
    Sagas are stories mostly about ancient Nordic and Germanic history, early Viking voyages, the battles that took place during the voyages and migration to Iceland and of feuds between Icelandic families. They were written in the Old Norse language, mainly in Iceland. Kings' sagas are of the lives of Scandinavian kings. They were composed in the 12th to 14th centuries. The Icelanders' sagas, a.k.a. ... Read more

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  • The Story of Burnt Njal

    A Medieval Icelandic Saga of Law, Honor, Vengeance, and the Fragility of Social Order

    by Anonymous ...
    Translated by George Webbe Dasent ...
    The Story of Burnt Njal, or Njáls saga, is a monumental Icelandic family saga tracing the intertwined lives of the lawman Njáll Þorgeirsson, the warrior Gunnar Hámundarson, and the feuding families whose loyalties, marriages, lawsuits, and acts of vengeance shape the narrative. Set largely in tenth- and eleventh-century Iceland, it moves from intimate domestic conflicts to the burning of Njáll and ... Read more

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  • Saga Six Pack 4

    by Abbie Farwell Brown, Snorri Sturluson, George Webbe Dasent ...
    Saga Six Pack 4 presents a sizzling sextet of Scandinavian super-sagas:In The Days of Giants - A Book of Norse Tales by Abbie Farwell Brown.Saga of Halfdan the Black by Snorri SturlusonTrue and Untrue by George Webbe DasentSaga of Sigurd the Crusader and his Brothers Eystein and Olaf by Snorri SturlusonKing Alfred's Viking - A Story of the First English Fleet by Char... ... Read more

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  • The Story of Norsemen

    Myths, Sagas, Eddic Verse, and Heroic Legends of the Viking North

    by Allen Mawer, Saemund Sigfusson, Snorri Sturluson, Sturla Þórðarson, Conrad Hjalmar Nordby, Hélène Adeline Guerber, Nora Kershaw, Anonymous ...
    Translated by Benjamin Thorpe, I.A. Blackwell, W. C. Green, Muriel A.C. Press, John Coles, G. W. DaSent, William Morris, Eirikr Magnusson, John Sephton, George Webbe, W.G. Collingwood, J. Stefansson, F. York Powell, Edmund Head, Arthur Middleton Reeves, Samuel Laing, James Johnstone ...
    The Story of Norsemen gathers saga narrative, medieval historiography, mythic tradition, and modern historical interpretation into a capacious portrait of the Scandinavian world. Its materials range from accounts of voyages, settlement, kinship, and conflict to reflections on language, place-names, belief, and kingship. Heroic episodes and Icelandic prose histories stand beside explanatory ... Read more

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  • The Essence of Viking Mythology: Norse Eddas, Sagas & Ballads

    by Saemund Sigfusson, Snorri Sturluson, Sturla Þórðarson, Conrad Hjalmar Nordby, Hélène Adeline Guerber, Nora Kershaw, Anonymous ...
    Translated by Benjamin Thorpe, I.A. Blackwell, W. C. Green, Muriel A.C. Press, John Coles, G. W. DaSent, William Morris, Eirikr Magnusson, John Sephton, George Webbe, W.G. Collingwood, J. Stefansson, F. York Powell, Edmund Head, Arthur Middleton Reeves, Samuel Laing, James Johnstone ...
    'The Essence of Viking Mythology: Norse Eddas, Sagas & Ballads' captures the sweeping grandeur of ancient Norse culture, distilled into a single, powerful collection. This anthology spans versatile literary forms from the poetic to the epic, assembling works that reflect the vast spectrum of Norse life, gods, and mortal destinies. Within its covers lie classic compositions, ranging from the mythic ... Read more

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  • The Junior Classics (Vol. 1-9)

    A World Treasury of Fairy Tales, Myths, Legends, Fables, and Classic Adventures for Young Readers

    by Hans Christian Andersen, Louisa M. Alcott, Charles Perrault, Lewis Carroll, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H. R. Schoolcraft, Andrew Lang, Homer, William Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Washington Irving, Virgil, Livy, Geoffrey Chaucer, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, William Shakespeare, John Bunyan, E. Frere, Flora Annie Steel, Ramaswami Raju, P. C. Asbjörnsen, George Webbe Dasent, Paul Sébillot, Hermann R. Kletke, John T. Naaké, W. S. Karajich, Adele M. Fielde, Mary Pamela Milne-Horne, Joseph Jacobs, Mme. d'Aulnoy, E. M. Wilmot-Buxton, Constance Maud, Lillian M. Gask, Henry W. Longfellow, Elsie Finnimore Buckley, George W. Cox, Thomas Bulfinch, Annie Ker, Cornelius Mathews, Rebecca Harding Davis, Sophie May, Jean Ingelow, Frances Browne, Jacob Abbott, E. S. Brooks, Emerson Hough, Elizabeth Harrison, Frederick Orin Bartlett, Edward Everett Hale, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Albert Lee ...
    The Junior Classics (Vols. 1–9) assembles a capacious library of tales, myths, poems, fables, adventures, histories, and dramatic excerpts designed to introduce younger readers to enduring traditions of world literature. Its range moves from classical epic and biblical-inflected allegory to fairy tale, folklore, romance, satire, and nineteenth-century children's writing. Familiar narratives of ... Read more

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  • Popular Tales from the Norse

    by SIR GEORGE WEBBE DASENT ...
    The collection includes various traditional stories from Norse mythology and Scandinavian folklore, featuring tales of gods, heroes, giants, trolls, and other mythical creatures. These narratives often reflect the cultural heritage and beliefs of the Nordic people, offering readers insights into the rich oral tradition of the region.Sir George Webbe Dasent's translation of "Popular Tales from the ... Read more

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  • Popular Tales From the Norse

    by George Webbe Dasent ...
    THE first edition of these Tales being exhausted, and a demand having arisen for a second, the Translator has thought it right to add thirteen tales, which complete the translation of MM. Asbjörnsen and Moe's Collection, and to strengthen the Introduction by working in some new matter, and by working out some points which were only slightly sketched in the first edition. The favour with which the ... Read more

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  • A Selection from the Norse Tales for the Use of Children

    by Sir George Webbe Dasent ...
    ONCE on a time there were two brothers; one was called True, and the other Untrue. True was always upright and good towards all, but Untrue was bad and full of lies, so that no one could believe what he said. Their mother was a widow, and hadn’t much to live on; so when her sons had grown up, she was forced to send them away that they might earn their bread in the world. Each got a little scrip ... Read more

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  • Thorr's hunt for his hammer

    by George Webbe Dasent ...
    Sir George Webbe Dasent (1817-1896), Doctor of Civil Law, was a British lawyer, translator of folk tales and contributor to The Times.He was educated at Westminster School, King's College London, and Oxford University, where he befriended classmate John Thadeus Delane, future editor of The Times. After graduating from university in 1840 with a degree in Classical literature, he was appointed ... Read more

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  • POPULAR TALES FROM THE NORSE - 59 Scandinavian Folk Tales

    by Anon E. Mouse, Compiled & Translated by George Webbe-Dasent ...
    This is a volume of 59 Scandinavian folk tales collected over time by Asbjörnsen and Moe and translated into English by Sir George Webbe-Dasent. This is not a volume of Norse mythology per se; so if you are looking for tales of Odin, Thor, Loki, etc., we would refer you to a volume entitled The Children of Odin. Rather, this volume is more fairy and far less Viking in nature. This is an anthology ... Read more

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