East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Asbjørnsen, P. C., Moe, J.E, Nielsen, K. R., & Henry Stone & Son. (1914). East of the sun and west of the moon: old tales from the north. (G.W. Dasent, Trans.). Hodder & Stoughton. Maastricht University Special Collections. Call number: MU KPB 028
Botanist and zoologist Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and poet and theologian Jørgen Engebretsen Moe were collectors of Norwegian folktales and legends at a time when Norway was in search of its own national identity. From 1841 to 1844, Asbjørnsen and Moe published Norske Folkeeventyr (Norwegian Folktales), an outstanding collection of stories about ghosts, trolls, gods, and…
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