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The Three Aunts
"The Three Aunts" is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in ''Norske Folkeeventyr''.George Webbe Dasent, ''Popular Tales from the Norse''"The Three Aunts" Edinburgh: David Douglass, 1888. Synopsis A poor hunter loses his wife, and their pretty daughter decides to go seek her fortune as a servant. She gets a position with the queen, and works so hard that she becomes her favorite. The other maids, jealous, tell the queen that the girl claims to be able to spin a pound of flax in twenty-four hours. The queen sets her to do it. The girl begs a room for herself, but never having spun flax, despairs. Suddenly an old woman enters, gets the girl to tell her story, and on the promise that the girl will call her "Aunt" on her wedding day, finishes the spinning for her. The queen is pleased with the yarn, and the other maids become more jealous. They tell the queen the girl claims to be able to weave all the yarn into cloth in twenty-four ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a total area of and had a population of 5,425,270 in January 2022. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden at a length of . It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south, on the other side of which are Denmark and the United Kingdom. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The maritime influence dominates Norway's climate, with mild lowland temperatures on the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norske Folkeeventyr
''Norwegian Folktales'' ( no, Norske folkeeventyr) is a collection of Norwegian folktales and legends by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe. It is also known as ''Asbjørnsen and Moe'', after the collectors. Asbjørnsen and Moe Asbjørnsen, a teacher, and Moe, a minister, had been friends for about 15 years when in 1841 they published the first volume of folktales – the collection of which had been an interest of both for some years. The work's popularity is partly attributable to Norway's newly won partial independence, and the wave of nationalism that swept the country in the 19th century; and the Norwegian written language they contributed to developing (i.e., what would become ''Bokmål''). The language of their publication of the fairy tales struck a balance in that, while it did not preserve their original dialect form in its entirety, it did import certain non-Danish features from it (dialect words and certain syntactic constructions).At the same time the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairy Tale
A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre. Such stories typically feature magic (paranormal), magic, incantation, enchantments, and mythical or fanciful beings. In most cultures, there is no clear line separating myth from folk or fairy tale; all these together form the literature of preliterate societies. Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends (which generally involve belief in the veracity of the events described) and explicit moral tales, including beast fables. In less technical contexts, the term is also used to describe something blessed with unusual happiness, as in "fairy-tale ending" (a happy ending) or "fairy-tale romance (love), romance". Colloquially, the term "fairy tale" or "fairy story" can also mean any far-fetched story or tall tale; it is used especially of any story that not only is not true, but could not possibly be true ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (15 January 18125 January 1885) was a Norwegian writer and scholar. He and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe were collectors of Norwegian folklore. They were so closely united in their lives' work that their folk tale collections are commonly mentioned only as "Asbjørnsen and Moe". Background Peter Christen Asbjørnsen was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was descended from a family originating at Otta in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal, which is believed to have come to an end with his death. He became a student at the University of Oslo in 1833, but as early as 1832, in his twentieth year, he had begun to collect and write down fairy tales and legends. He later walked on foot the length and breadth of Norway, adding to his stories. Jørgen Moe, who was born in Ringerike, met Asbjørnsen first when he was fourteen years old, while they were both attending high school at Norderhov Rectory. The building is today the site of Ringerikes Mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jørgen Moe
Jørgen Engebretsen Moe (22 April 1813–27 March 1882) was a Norwegian folklorist, bishop, poet, and author. He is best known for the ''Norske Folkeeventyr'', a collection of Norwegian folk tales which he edited in collaboration with Peter Christen Asbjørnsen. He also served as the Bishop of the Diocese of Kristianssand from 1874 until his death in 1882. Biography Jørgen Engebretsen Moe was born at the farm of Øvre Moe in the municipality of Hole in the traditional district of Ringerike. He was the son of local farmer and politician Engebret Olsen Moe. He first met Asbjørnsen while the two were preparing for exams at Norderhov Rectory and soon found they had a shared interest in folklore. Starting in 1841, Moe traveled almost every summer through the southern parts of Norway, collecting traditions and stories from the people living in the mountainous areas. In 1845, he was appointed professor of theology in the Norwegian Military Academy. However, Moe had long in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boots And The Troll
"About Ash Lad, Who Stole the Troll's Silver Ducks, Coverlet, and Golden Harp" (Dano-Norwegian: ) is a Norwegian folktale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in ''Norwegian Folktales'' (''Norske Folkeeventyr'' No. 1), translated as "Boots and the Troll" by George Webbe Dasent in 1859. Textual notes The name "Askepot" was used in the first edition (1843), where the tale was entitled "Om Askepot, som stjal Troldets Sølvænder, Sengetæppe og Guldharpe". The name was changed to Askeladden in the 2nd edition (1852), but only in the title, and the name remained Askepot throughout the story. This was rectified in later issued editions. The tale has been translated as "About Ash Lad, Who Stole the Troll's Silver Ducks, Coverlet, and Golden Harp" by Tiina Nunnally, and as "Boots and the Troll" by Dasent (1859). Synopsis An old man burned in hell. His three sons set out to seek their fortune. The two older would have nothing to do with the youngest son, who the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dapplegrim
Dapplegrim (Norwegian: ''Grimsborken'') is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their ''Norske Folkeeventyr''. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Red Fairy Book''. Plot A man, the youngest of 12 children, decides to wander off from his rich parents' house. Upon his return, he finds his parents have died and his brothers have shared all the lands among themselves, thinking he was dead. They offer him 12 mares as compensation, and when he goes to check them he finds all of them have a foal, and that one has yet another foal, a very sleek dapple-gray one. When he praises the beauty of the foal, it replies back and tells him that he'll be more splendid if the young man would go and kill all the other foals and let him feed on all the mares' milk for a year. The young man decides to heed to this advice and finds him a year later being quite large and sleeker. The colt tells him that he would be even more splendid if the young man were to g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Habetrot
Habetrot (''Habitrot'', ''Habtrot'' and ''Habbitrot'') is a figure in folklore of the Border counties of Northern England and Lowland Scotland, associated with spinning and the spinning wheel.''Notes on the folk-lore of the northern counties of England and the borders'', William Henderson, Longmans, Green, 1866. pp. 4-5''Notes on the folk-lore of the northern counties of England and the borders'', William Henderson, Longmans, Green, 1866. pp. 221-226''A companion to the fairy tale'', Hilda Ellis Davidson, Anna Chaudhri, DS Brewer, 2006, , . page. 107 Folktale Habetrot appears in a Selkirkshire folktale which is a variant of the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index tale type ATU 501, "The Three Old Spinning Women". She is an old, deformed woman who lives underground with a group of other spinsters, all disfigured by their work (some have splayed feet or flat thumbs). The only other named spinster is Scantlie Mab. Habetrot spun yarn for a local girl and then convinced the girl's new hus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rumpelstiltskin
"Rumpelstiltskin" ( ; german: Rumpelstilzchen) is a German fairy tale. It was collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of ''Children's and Household Tales''. The story is about a little imp who spins straw into gold in exchange for a girl's firstborn child. Plot In order to appear superior, a miller brags to the king and people of the kingdom he lives in by claiming his daughter can spin straw into gold.Some versions make the miller's daughter blonde and describe the "straw-into-gold" claim as a careless boast the miller makes about the way his daughter's straw-like blond hair takes on a gold-like lustre when sunshine strikes it. The king calls for the girl, locks her up in a tower room filled with straw and a spinning wheel, and demands she spin the straw into gold by morning or he will have her killed.Other versions have the king threatening to lock her up in a dungeon forever, or to punish her father for lying. When she has given up all hope, a little imp-like man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Little Girl Sold With The Pears
"The Little Girl Sold with the Pears" (Italian: ''La bambina venduta con le pere'') is an Italian fairy tale published by Italo Calvino in ''Italian Folktales'', from Piedmont. Ruth Manning-Sanders included a variant, as "The Girl in the Basket", in ''A Book of Ogres and Trolls''. Synopsis Once there was a man had to pay the king rent in the form of four baskets of pears. One year his trees yielded only three and a half baskets full, so he put his youngest daughter in the fourth basket to fill it up. When the baskets arrived at the castle, the royal servants found the girl by the pears she ate, and they set her to work as a servant. As the girl, named Perina (from ''pear''), grew up, she and the prince fell in love, which caused the other maidservants to grow envious. In Manning-Sander's version, the servants told the king that she had boasted of doing all the laundry in one day; with the prince's aid, she was able to do it. In most other versions, the maids then tell the king that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Three Spinners
"The Three Spinners" (also The Three Spinning Women; German: ''Die drei Spinnerinnen'') is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'' (KHM 14). It is Aarne–Thompson type 501, which is widespread throughout Europe. It has obvious parallels to Rumpelstiltskin and Frau Holle, and obvious differences, so that they are often compared. Giambattista Basile includes an Italian literary fairy tale, The Seven Little Pork Rinds, in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone''. Italo Calvino's ''Italian Folktales'' includes a variant, ''And Seven!''. The first edition of ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'' contained a much shorter variant, Hateful Flax Spinning, but it is "The Three Spinners" that became well-known. Origin The tale was published by the Brothers Grimm in the second edition of ''Kinder- und Hausmärchen'' in 1819. Their principal source was Paul Wigand (1786–1866), completed by the versions of Jeanette Hassenpflug (1791–1860) and Johannes Prätorius ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thirteenth (fairy Tale)
"Thirteenth" ( Sicilian: ''Tridicinu'') is an Italian fairy tale originally collected by Sicilian folklorist Giuseppe Pitrè and published by Thomas Frederick Crane in ''Italian Popular Tales''. It is Aarne-Thompson type 328, "The Boy Steals the Giant's Treasures". Synopsis A mother of thirteen sons motivates them to become fast runners, by arranging a competition each night: whoever reaches home first will enjoy the soup made from herbs their father has gathered. The youngest son, called Thirteenth, always wins, and as a result his brothers envy him and try to get rid of him. One day, the king promises a prize of gold for the hero who manages to steal the blanket of a giant in the vicinity. The brothers approach the king and tell him that Thirteenth boasts to be able to perform the feat. The king then asks that Thirteenth be brought before him, and demands that he do what he has bragged about. Thirteen, who never has pretended to be a monster slayer, protests, but to no avai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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