Index:Popular tales from the Norse (1912).djvu

Title	Popular Tales from the Norse
Author	George Webbe Dasent
Year	1912
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CONTENTS.

 

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Memoir of the Author	xvii

INTRODUCTION.

Origin	xliii
Diffusion	lvii
Norse Mythology	lxxxi
Norse Popular Tales	cviii
Conclusion	clxi

TALES.

True and Untrue	1
Why the Sea is Salt	8
The Old Dame and her Hen	14
East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon	22
Boots who ate a Match with the Troll	36
Hacon Grizzlebeard	39
Boots who made the Princess say, "That's a Story"	48
The Twelve Wild Ducks	51
The Giant who had no Heart in his Body	59
The Fox as Herdsman	69
The Mastermaid	71
The Cat on the Dovrefell	90
Princess on the Glass Hill	92
How One Went out to Woo	104
The Cock and Hen	105
The Master-Smith	105
The Two Step-Sisters	113
Buttercup	124
Taming the Shrew	129
Shortshanks	131
Gudbrand on the Hill-side	149
The Blue Belt	155
Why the Bear is Stumpy-Tailed	172
Not a Pin to Choose between Them	173
One's own Children are always Prettiest	180
The Three Princesses of Whiteland	181
The Lassie and her Godmother	188
The Three Aunts	193
The Cock the Cuckoo and the Blackcock	198
Rich Peter the Pedlar	199
Gertrude's Bird	213
Boots and the Troll	215
Goosey Grizzel	221
The Lad who went to the North Wind	228
The Master Thief	232
The Best Wish	252
The Three Billy-Goats Gruff	264
Well Done and Ill Paid	266
The Husband who was to Mind the House	269
Dapplegrim	272
Farmer Weathersky	285
Lord Peter	295
The Seven Foals	302
The Widow's Son	311
Bushy Bride	322
Boots and his Brothers	330
Big Peter and Little Peter	336
Tatterhood	345
The Cock and Hen that went to the Dovrefell	353
Katie Woodencloak	357
Thumbikin	372
Doll i' the Grass	374
The Lad and the Deil	377
The Cock and Hen a-Nutting	378
The Big Bird Dan	382
Soria Moria Castle	396
Bruin and Reynard	409
Tom Totherhouse	411
Little Annie the Goose-Girl	414
Introduction to Appendix	419
Note to Introduction to Appendix	422

APPENDIX.

Why the Jack-Spaniard's Waist is Small	425
Ananzi and the Lion	425
Ananzi and Quanqua	429
The Ear of Corn and the Twelve Men	430
The King and the Ant's Tree	432
The Little Child and the Pumpkin Tree	433
The Brother and his Sisters	434
The Girl and the Fish	437
The Lion the Goat and the Baboon	438
Ananzi and Baboon	439
The Man and the Doukana Tree	440
Nancy Fairy	441
The Dancing Gang	443