I have a plan. It'll be realised over the course of a couple of years or so (assuming no unexpected event delays execution).

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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

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

It's live! Christmas in Norway, 2025.

Buy an unrestricted ePub, or get it on Kindle.

Then wait a month or so before you begin to read a text a day for Advent.

https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/Christmas-in-Norway-2025

Table of contents, links to buy the book, and financial details (to ward off any idea that I am enriching myself at your expense).

#Bookstodon #NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegends #Folktales #Folklore #SelfPublishing #Christmas #Norway #AdventCalendar

“The Three Bucks Bruse,” Hans Gerhard Sørensen, 1962.

#Folklore #NorwegianFolktales

An intriguing note that is not attached to the relevant folktale.

"Instead of a rat, mouse, or the like, it is a cat that, each night, is transformed into a princess."

Moltke Moe, 1879.

In fact, I have not yet read a folktale of that type (at least three variants implied in the note).

#Folklore #Folktales #NorwegianFolktales #MoltkeMoe

#ScribesAndMakers 13. September: Shameless self-promotion day. Let's boost away.

The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe

https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/the-complete-norwegian-folktales-and-legends-of-asbjornsen-moe

In three volumes:

- 150 published folktales and hulder tales and folk legends, including:

- 122 folktales
- 28 hulder tales and folk legends
- A score of texts appearing in English for the first time
- Three folktales added to the collection for the first time

- Original prefaces from eight editions

- Jørgen Moe’s substantial scholarly introduction to the Norwegian folktales

- More than 350 illustrations by, among others:

- Theodor Kittelsen
- Erik Werenskiold
- Otto Sinding
- Hans Gude
- Adolph Tidemand
- August Schneider
- Johan Eckersberg

- Asbjørnsen’s and Moe’s original notes on the majority of the folktales; these:

- Note the variant(s) the collectors used to compose each folktale
- Sketch out other variants they collected
- Compare the Norwegian folktales with similar traditions from other regions

- Newly-researched editor’s notes on every folktale and hulder tale and folk legend; these:

- Identify the collector responsible for the composition of each text
- Note 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
- Draw attention to points of particular interest

- A comprehensive bibliography in each volume

#norwegianfolktales #norwegianlegends #folklore #folklorethursday #folktales @norwegianfolktales @folklore #fairytales @folklorethursday #bookstodon

Right. I have a book of fifteen facsimiles of different versions (including a Russian version) of "The Story of the Three Bears;" secondary literature that ranges from the helpful, through the misleading, to the distasteful (anal interpretations of the folktale, anyone?); two Norwegian folktales the secondary literature cites as Robert Southey's sources (tangental, at best – one more so than the other); one naturalised Norwegian version of "The Three Bears" that the national library has inexplicably attributed to the famous collector, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen...

And I don't know what to do with any of it, except take notes. Which I am doing, of course – as a way of procrastinating something someone actually wants to read about.

#norwegianfolktales #folklore #folktales @norwegianfolktales @folklore #fairytales #bookstodon

Berget det blå (The blue mountain) is a music album by Ketil Bjørnstad , released in 1974 .

The title of the album (and of the title track) is associated with one of the folk tales known from Asbjørnsen and Moe's fairy tale collections, namely The Three Princesses (or Kings' Daughters) in the Blue Mountain . Bjørnstad has also written about being in, or longing for, "the blue mountain" in several of his novels, such as The Land on the Other Side (1979) , The Possibilities of Twilight and Drift (1996). - Norwegian Wikipedia (translated)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHMFBTzLEPw&list=PLiRPIgUa-ejWsVbOYCQYbpiFNI3T-1VvC&index=1

#ketilbjornstad #jazz #europeanjazz #norwegianjazz #norway #norwegianfolktales

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

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/

Mountains abound, this #FairyTaleTuesday.

Here's one of the better-known #NorwegianFolktales, "The Maiden on the Glass Mountain," in which a simple farm boy, with the help of unseen forces, brings the princess down from her perch.

https://norwegianfolktales.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-maiden-on-glass-mountain.html

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

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

Day 5 of #FolktaleWeek2022 here on #Mastodon.

The most popular of the #NorwegianFolktales I have translated, “White Bear King Valemon” tells of a princess who goes to live with a white bear who is not what he at first appears. When she does the opposite of what he tells her to do, she has to go on a long quest to find and save him. #FolktaleWeek

https://norwegianfolktales.blogspot.com/2016/02/white-bear-king-valemon.html

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

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

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

Finnic and Nordic mythology meet in the next instalment of The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe. #NorwegianFolktales

https://www.patreon.com/NorwegianFolktales

It’s day three of #folktaleweek2022 here on Mastodon. One of the most famous #NorwegianFolktales, “Soria Moria Castle” tells the tale of Halvor, a lazy boy at home, who goes to sea. Going ashore in a foreign clime, Halvor saves his princess and her sisters from their respective trolls by means of a giant swords and an enchanting drinks. #folktaleweek

https://norwegianfolktales.blogspot.com/2016/01/soria-moria-palace.html