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Folk-Lore and Legends: Scandinavian

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Thanks to Thiele, to Hylten-Cavallius and Stephens, and to Asbjörnsen and Moe, Scandinavian Folklore is well to the front. Its treasures are many, and of much value. One may be almost sorry to find among them the originals of many of our English tales. Are we indebted to the folk of other nations for all our folk-tales? It would almost seem so.

I have introduced into the present volume only one or two stories from the Prose Edda. Space would not allow me to give so much of the Edda as I could have wished.

In selecting and translating the matter for this volume, I have endeavoured to make the book such as would afford its readers a fair general view of the main features of the Folklore of the North. - Summary by Charles John Tibbits (5 hr 5 min)

Chapters

PREFATORY NOTE

1:22

Read by Sonia

THE WONDERFUL PLOUGH

8:01

Read by Sonia

HOW A LAD STOLE THE GIANT'S TREASURE

14:18

Read by Curt Troutwine

TALES OF CATS

2:20

Read by Curt Troutwine

THE MAGICIAN'S DAUGHTER

12:43

Read by Tabea

THE HILL-MAN INVITED TO THE CHRISTENING

5:02

Read by Tabea

THE MEAL OF FROTHI

2:59

Read by Brandon Weston

THE LOST BELL

9:52

Read by Brandon Weston

MAIDEN SWANWHITE AND MAIDEN FOXTAIL

14:34

Read by Brandon Weston

TALES OF TREASURE

5:52

Read by Brandon Weston

HOLGER DANSKE

3:25

Read by Brandon Weston

TALES FROM THE PROSE EDDA

8:42

Read by Curt Troutwine

THE STRANGE BUILDER

4:05

Read by Curt Troutwine

THOR'S JOURNEY TO THE LAND OF GIANTS and HOW THOR WENT A-FISHING

23:06

Read by Sonia

THE DEATH OF BALDUR

8:16

Read by Curt Troutwine

THE PUNISHMENT OF LOKI

3:54

Read by Curt Troutwine

ORIGIN OF TIIS LAKE

2:42

Read by Curt Troutwine

THERE ARE SUCH WOMEN

9:39

Read by Sarah Jump

TALES OF THE NISSES

8:51

Read by Deon Gines

THE DWARFS' BANQUET

25:53

Read by Caroline Lilyard

THE ICELANDIC SORCERESSES

10:12

Read by Sarah Jump

THE THREE DOGS

29:11

Read by Claudia Wagner

THE LEGEND OF THORGUNNA

15:42

Read by Curt Troutwine

THE LITTLE GLASS SHOE

7:46

Read by Liana Leite

HOW LOKI WAGERED HIS HEAD

5:07

Read by Deon Gines

THE ADVENTURES OF JOHN DIETRICH

44:01

Read by Caroline Lilyard

HOW THORSTON BECAME RICH

3:27

Read by Curt Troutwine

GUDBRAND

7:40

Read by Curt Troutwine

THE DWARF-SWORD TIRFING

6:31

Read by Sonia