Research Catalog

Title

Swedish folktales and legends / selected, translated, and edited by Lone Thygesen Blecher and George Blecher.

Publication

New York : Pantheon Books, [1993], ©1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Blecher, Lone Thygesen.
• Blecher, George.

Description

xxvii, 383 : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

The Pantheon fairy tale and folklore library

Uniform Title

Pantheon fairy tale & folklore library.

Subjects

• Tales > Sweden
• Legends > Sweden

Note

• Translated from the Swedish.

Contents

• Animal Tales. Small Birds Can Kill Too! The Rooster Wins the Race. The Fox, the Bear, and the Honeycomb. How the Bear Got His Stubby Tail. The Fox and the Rowanberries. "They're Sour," Said the Fox. The Fox and the Crane Invite Each Other to Dinner. Why the Hare Has a Cleft Lip. If It Were Summer . . . The Wolf and the Fox. The Wolf Who Wanted to Become Stronger. The Billy Goat and the Wolf. Hold the Wolf by the Tail -- Trolls, Giants, Ghosts, and Other Beings. To Squeeze Water from a Stone. The Girl Who Wouldn't Spin. The Boy Who Worked for the Giant. Little Hans. Onen in the Mountain. The Gullible Troll. The Clever Boy. The Backahast (legend). The Skogsra at Lapptjarns Mountain (legend). To Catch Smoke (legend). The Tale of the Troll Woman (legend). The Tale of Speke (legend). The Gypsy Girl and Her Dead Fiance (legend). Hobergsgubben (legend). The Trolls and the Bear (legend). The Giant's Toy (legend) -- True Dummies and Clever Folk. The Tale of the Crooked Creature.
• Wise Klara. The Stupid Boy Who Didn't Know About Women. Counting the Stars in Heaven. Fools. The Princess of Catburg. Pretend to Eat, Pretend to Work. Lazy Masse. Big Tomma and Heikin Pieti. For Long Springday. The Students and the Eclipse of the Moon. The Numbskull Who Thought He Married a Man. Talje Fools. The Thief's Three Masterpieces. The Girl and the Calf's Eyes (legend). The King, the Headsman, and the Twelve Robbers (legend). Twelve Men in the Forest (legend). The Wise Daughter (legend). Bellman Stories (legend) -- How to Win the Princess. Twigmouthius, Cowbellowantus, Perchnosimus. The Princess Who Always Had an Answer. The Boat That Sailed on Both Land and Sea. The Liar. Ash Dummy Chops Down the Oak and Becomes the King's Son-in-Law. The Princess with the Louse Skin. Sheepskin Boy. The Princess Who Danced with a Troll Every Night. Stuck on a Goose. The King's Hares. Prince Greenbeard -- Tales of Heroes and Heroines. The Three Swords.
• The Peasant Girl in the Floating Rock. Manasse and Cecilia. The Princess in the Earthen Cave. The Silver Dress, the Gold Dress, and the Diamond Dress. The Boy in the Birch-Bark Basket. The Castle East of the Sun and West of the Wind in the Promised Land. Prince Vilius. The Three Sons Who Each Had a Foal, a Puppy, and a Sword. The Twelve Kidnapped Princesses. The Tale of White Bear. Little Rose and Big Briar -- Metamorphoses. The Serpent Prince. The Widow's Son. Gray Cape. The Animal Husbands. Prince Faithful. The Rats in the Juniper Bush -- Tales of Men and Women. Like a Cold Wind in Warm Weather. The Quick-Learning Girl. The Girl Who Gave a Knight a Kiss Out of Necessity. The Fussy Fiance. Par and Bengta. Who's Got the Dumbest Husband. Geska. The Stingy Farmer. The Man and Woman Who Changed Jobs. The Contrary Old Woman (legend). The Tale of a Suitor (legend). The Hunter and the Skogsra (legend). The Woman in the Hole (legend). The Man Who Married the Mara (legend).
• The Hidden Key (legend) -- Moral Tales. His Just Reward. Master Par and Rag Jan's Boy. The Girl in the Robbers' Den. Funteliten and His Mother. The Girl Who Stepped on the Bread. A Tale of Two Beggars. The Filthy-Rich Student. The Bad Stepmother. The Tale of the Copper Pot. The Two Chests. Godfather Death. The Bear and the Woman. The Boy, the Old Woman, and the Neighbor (legend). The Salt Mill (legend). Old Nick and the Widow (legend). The Lazy Boy and the Industrious Girl (legend). The Parson's Wife Who Had No Shadow (legend). The Despised Rake (legend). The Tale of the Sculptor's Beautiful Wife (legend). The Big Turnip (legend) -- Parsons, the Good Lord, and the Evil One. "Yet a Little While, and the World Seeth Me No More" The Devil and the Tailor. Kitta Gray. The Pregnant Parson. Forging with Sand. The Parson, the Sexton, and the Devil. The Sermon About Nothing. Sven Fearless. The Tale of the Parson and the Sexton. The Farmer Who Sold His Soul to the Devil (legend).
• The Night-Blind Parson (legend). The Burning Lake (legend). The Bishop's Visit (legend). One More Schnapps (legend). The Hare in the Treetop (legend). Exchange Heads with the Devil (legend) -- Tall Tales, Superstitions, and Jingles. The Mountain in the Forest. The Old Lady's Cat. The Snake Cookers. The Goat Who Wouldn't Go Home. "Eat the Bread Too!" The Little Old Woman. The Three Lying Old Women. The Biggest Stable and the Biggest Pot. The Black Cow, the Pot, and the Cheese. Boots for the Son in America. That Was the End of the Tale.

ISBN

0394547918

LCCN

93000748

OCLC

• 27768887
• ocm27768887

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries