She saw the Lindworm for the first time, as he came in and stood by her side The Lad in the Bear’s skin, and the King of Arabia’s daughter “Tell me the way, then,” she said, “and I’ll search you out”Īnd then she lay on a little green patch in the midst of the gloomy thick woodĪnd flitted away as far as they could from the Castle that lay East of the Sun and West of the Moon “Well, mind and hold tight by my shaggy coat, and then there’s nothing to fear,” said the Bear, so she rode a long, long way The Three Princesses in theīlue Mountain is printed by arrangement with Messrs.ĭavid Nutt and Prince Lindworm is newly translated for Dasent’s “Popular Talesįrom the Norse,” has been obtained from Messrs. Permission to reprint the Stories in this book, which

Reincarnated in line and colour, to the delight of all who And these imperishable traditions, whoseīases are among the very roots of all antiquity, are here Will make an appeal to all, as represented in the pictures

Realistic intermingling of actuality with supernaturalism,īy which the original Norske Folkeeventyr are characterised, The quaintness, the tenderness, the grotesque yet Of sensation, of heroic example, from which primeval

Of Nations: they are the never-failing springs of sentiment, Nursery Tales, would be to curtail them, by nine-tenths, Himself: and the exquisite bizarrerie of his drawingsĪptly expresses the innermost significance of the old-world, Has an advantage over the reader of an English rendering. Touch of stranger hands and he who has been able toĪcquaint himself with the Norske Folkeeventyr of AsbjörnsenĪnd Moe (from which these stories are selected), Is peculiarly sensitive and susceptible to the Produced by Suzanne Shell, Dan Horwood and the Onlineįile was produced from images generously made availableīy The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)Ī folk-tale, in its primitive plainness of wordĪnd entire absence of complexity in thought, *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EAST OF THE SUN *** With this eBook or online at Title: East of the Sun and West of the Moon Re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withĪlmost no restrictions whatsoever.

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