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<div class="figcenter1"> <ANTIMG src="images/cover.jpg" width-obs="410" height-obs="656" alt="cover" title="" /></div> <h1 class="f12">THE NORWEGIAN FAIRY BOOK</h1> <div class="bbox"> BOOKS IN THE “FAIRY SERIES” <hr class="l3" /> <ul class="lsoff"> <li>The English Fairy Book</li> <li>The Welsh Fairy Book</li> <li>The Irish Fairy Book</li> <li>The Scottish Fairy Book</li> <li>The Italian Fairy Book</li> <li>The Hungarian Fairy Book</li> <li>The Indian Fairy Book</li> <li>The Spanish Fairy Book</li> <li>The Danish Fairy Book</li> <li>The Norwegian Fairy Book</li> <li>The Jewish Fairy Book</li> <li>The Swedish Fairy Book</li> <li>The Chinese Fairy Book</li> </ul></div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i001.jpg" width-obs="404" height-obs="573" alt="“AN OLD WOMAN CAME LIMPING ALONG, AND ASKED HIM WHAT HE HAD IN HIS KNAPSACK” —Page 17" title="" /> “AN OLD WOMAN CAME LIMPING ALONG, AND ASKED HIM WHAT HE HAD IN HIS KNAPSACK” —Page 17</div> <div class="bbox2"> <div class="bbox3"> <h1>THE NORWEGIAN FAIRY BOOK</h1> EDITED BY CLARA STROEBE TRANSLATED BY FREDERICK H. MARTENS <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i002.png" width-obs="99" height-obs="128" alt="logo" title="FREDERICK·A·STOKES·COMPANY·NEW·YORK·ESTABLISHED·EIGHTEEN·EIGHTY·ONE" /></div> WITH SIX ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY GEORGE W. HOOD   NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS </div> </div> Copyright, 1922, by Frederick A. Stokes Company <hr class="l4" /> All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America [v] <hr class="l2" /> <h2>PREFACE</h2> These Norwegian tales of elemental mountain, forest and sea spirits, handed down by hinds and huntsmen, woodchoppers and fisherfolk, men who led a hard and lonely life amid primitive surroundings are, perhaps, among the most fascinating the Scandinavian countries have to offer. Nor are they only meant to delight the child, though this they cannot fail to do. “Grown-ups” also, who take pleasure in a good story, well told, will enjoy the original “Peer Gynt” legend, as it existed before Ibsen gave it more symbolic meanings; and that glowing, beautiful picture of an Avalon of the Northern seas shown in “The Island of Udröst.” What could be more human and moving than the tragic “The Player on the Jew’s-Harp,” or more genuinely entertaining than “The King’s Hares”? “The Master-Girl” is a Candida of fairy-land, and the thrill and glamor of black magic and mystery run through such stories as “The Secret Church,” “The Comrade,” and “Lucky Andrew.” In “The Honest Four-Shilling Piece” we have the adventures of a Norse Dick Whittington. “Storm Magic” is one of the most thrilling sea tales, bar none, ever written, and every story included in the volume seems to bring with it the breath of the Norse mountains or the tang of the spindrift on[vi] Northern seas. Much of the charm of the stories lies in the directness and simplicity of their telling; and this quality, which adds so much to their appeal, the translator has endeavored to preserve in its integrity. He cannot but feel that “The Norwegian Fairy Book” has an appeal for one and all, since it is a book in which the mirror of fairy-tale reflects human yearnings and aspirations, human loves, ambitions and disillusionments, in an imaginatively glamored, yet not distorted form. It is his hope and belief that those who may come to know it will derive as much pleasure from its reading as it gave him to put it into English. Frederick H. Martens. [vii] <hr class="l2" /> <h2>CONTENTS</h2> <div class="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Contents"> <tr><td class="col4">CHAPTER</td><td class="col2"> </td><td class="col4">PAGE</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">I</td><td class="col2">Per Gynt</td><td class="col3">1</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">II</td><td class="col2">The Isle of Udröst</td><td class="col3">9</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">III</td><td class="col2">The Three Lemons</td><td class="col3">16</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">IV</td><td class="col2">The Neighbor Underground</td><td class="col3">23</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">V</td><td class="col2">The Secret Church</td><td class="col3">26</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">VI</td><td class="col2">The Comrade</td><td class="col3">30</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">VII</td><td class="col2">Aspenclog</td><td class="col3">48</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">VIII</td><td class="col2">The Troll Wedding</td><td class="col3">51</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">IX</td><td class="col2">The Hat of the Huldres</td><td class="col3">54</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">X</td><td class="col2">The Child of Mary</td><td class="col3">56</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XI</td><td class="col2">Storm Magic</td><td class="col3">62</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XII</td><td class="col2">The Four-shilling Piece</td><td class="col3">69</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XIII</td><td class="col2">The Magic Apples</td><td class="col3">76</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XIV</td><td class="col2">Self Did It</td><td class="col3">81</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XV</td><td class="col2">The Master Girl</td><td class="col3">83</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XVI</td><td class="col2">Anent the Giant Who Did Not Have His Heart About Him</td><td class="col3">101</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XVII</td><td class="col2">The Three Princesses in Whiteland</td><td class="col3">110</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XVIII</td><td class="col2">Trouble and Care</td><td class="col3">118</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XIX</td><td class="col2">Kari Woodencoat</td><td class="col3">136</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XX</td><td class="col2">Ola Storbaekkjen</td><td class="col3">152</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XXI</td><td class="col2">The Cat Who Could Eat So Much</td><td class="col3">155</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XXII</td><td class="col2">East of the Sun and West of the Moon</td><td class="col3">165</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XXIII</td><td class="col2">Murmur Goose-egg</td><td class="col3">181</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XXIV</td><td class="col2">The Troll-Wife</td><td class="col3">197</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XXV</td><td class="col2">The King’s Hares</td><td class="col3">202</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XXVI</td><td class="col2">Helge-Hal in the Blue Hill</td><td class="col3">213</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XXVII</td><td class="col2">The Lord of the Hill and John Blessom</td><td class="col3">224</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XXVIII</td><td class="col2">The Young Fellow and the Devil</td><td class="col3">227</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XXIX</td><td class="col2">Farther South Than South, and Farther North Than North, and in the Great Hill of Gold</td><td class="col3">229</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XXX</td><td class="col2">Lucky Andrew</td><td class="col3">236</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XXXI</td><td class="col2">The Pastor and the Sexton</td><td class="col3">244</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XXXII</td><td class="col2">The Skipper and Sir Urian</td><td class="col3">247</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XXXIII</td><td class="col2">The Youth Who Was to Serve Three Years Without Pay</td><td class="col3">250</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XXXIV</td><td class="col2">The Youth Who Wanted to Win the Daughter of the Mother in the Corner</td><td class="col3">265</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XXXV</td><td class="col2">The Chronicle of the Pancake</td><td class="col3">274</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XXXVI</td><td class="col2">Soria-Moria Castle</td><td class="col3">279</td></tr> <tr><td class="col1">XXXVII</td><td class="col2">The Player on the Jew’s-harp</td><td class="col3">293</td></tr> </table></div> [ix] <hr class="l2" /> <h2>LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS</h2> <div class="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="List of Illustrations"> <tr><td class="col2">“An Old Woman Came Limping Along, and Asked Him What He Had in His Knapsack”</td><td class="col3">Frontispiece</td></tr> <tr><td align="left"> </td><td class="col4">FACING PAGE</td></tr> <tr><td class="col2">“And So He Saw the Lovely Maiden Who Was Seated Among Its Branches”</td><td class="col3">58</td></tr> <tr><td class="col2">“They At Last Reached the Lake”</td><td class="col3">108</td></tr> <tr><td class="col2">“There Murmur Jumped from One Mountain-top to Another”</td><td class="col3">188</td></tr> <tr><td class="col2">“The King Reckoned and Added Them Up, and Counted with His Fingers”</td><td class="col3">206</td></tr> <tr><td class="col2">“‘Hey There!’ The Woman Was After It with the Pan in One Hand, and the Spoon in the Other”</td><td class="col3">274</td></tr> </table></div> <hr class="l1" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

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