title: Norwegian Folk Tales
author: Peter Christen Asbjornsen
description: from the dustjacket: This is a spirited translation by an American Fullbright scholar. Pat Shaw Iversen and a Norwegian floklorist, Carl Norman. Thirty-five stories full of action with witches and trolls,foxes and bears, romantic princes and heroes arising from country lads. All are illustrated with dynamic and entertaining illustrations by Erik Werenskiold and Theodor Kitelsen. 188 pags.
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  Poems and Songs
  
  
  INTRODUCTION
  
  SYNNOVE'S SONG
  
  THE HARE AND THE FOX
  
  NILS FINN
  
  THE MAIDENS' SONG
  
  THE DOVE
  
  THE MOTHER'S SONG
  
  LAMBKIN MINE
  
  BALLAD OF TAILOR NILS
  
  VENEVIL
  
  OVER THE LOFTY MOUNTAINS
  
  THE DAY OF SUNSHINE
  
  INGERID SLETTEN
  
  THE TREE
  
  THE MELODY
  
  OUR COUNTRY
  
  SONG FOR NORWAY
  
  THE CALL
  
  EVENING
  
  MARIT'S SONG
  
  LOVE THY NEIGHBOR
  
  OYVIND'S SONG
  
  LOVE SONG
  
  MOUNTAIN SONG
  
  ANSWER FROM NORWAY TO THE SPEECHES IN THE SWEDISH
  
  
  HOUSE OF NOBLES, 1860
  
  JOHAN LUDVIG HEIBERG
  
  THE OCEAN
  
  ALONE AND REPENTANT
  
  THE PRINCESS
  
  FROM MONTE PINCIO
  
  IF ONLY YOU KNEW IT
  
  THE ANGELS OF SLEEP
  
  THE MAIDEN ON THE SHORE
  
  SECRET LOVE
  
  OLAF TRYGVASON
  
  A SIGH
  
  TO A GODSON
  
  BERGLIOT
  
  TO MY WIFE
  
  IN A HEAVY HOUR
  
  KAARE'S SONG
  
  IVAR INGEMUNDSON'S LAY
  
  MAGNUS THE BLIND
  
  SIN, DEATH
  
  FRIDA
  
  BERGEN
  
  P. A. MUNCH
  
  KING FREDERIK THE SEVENTH
  
  TO SWEDEN
  
  OUR FOREFATHERS
  
  WHEN NORWAY WOULD NOT HELP
  
  DANIEL SCHJÖTZ
  
  TO THE DANNEBROG
  
  THE NORRÖNA-RACE
  
  HYMN OF THE