Scandinavian Folktales and Legends

How long it will be, I don’t know, but my book of The Draug is coming. Take a look at the announcement on my Website: Forthcoming: The Dr...

What do the trolls do when their leader has his nose shot off? “ Trond ,” as told by Olav Eivindsson Ausdal, on my website, NorwegianFol...

Have you read about what I intend to do with the more than 40 volumes of Swedish folktales I have access to? Perhaps you’d like to. If so,...

A fox saw a hen in a field, and thought of making a meal of her. Yet before he did so, he recited a prayer of thanksgiving. By the time he h...

The beginning of the following Swedish folktale is grim. It continues as a version of “The Ram and the Pig Who Should Go to the Forest and...

The hero of “every other one of our folktales,” as Jørgen Moe once said, Askeladden is far from a heroic name. Read about the name of Aske...

Three chunky volumes (815 pages, 617 pages, and 665 pages). Original prefaces from eight editions. Jørgen Moe’s substantial introduct...

A legend belongs to a genre of folk narrative that purports to relate true accounts of inexplicable episodes encountered by friends, famil...

Ringelihorn and Other Tales from Northern Norway is a collection of 20 folk- and fairy tales, first published in 2 volumes in 1925/ 6. T...

Every single folktale and legend published by Asbjørnsen & Moe in English for the first time. These are the most comprehensive edition...