Jørgen Engebretsen Moe
Author
Series
Macmillan classics volume 21
Pub. Date
1963
Physical Desc
136 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
1977
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
'East of the Sun and West of the Moon' is a collection of Nordic and Norwegian folklore, edited and collated by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe. The two men were so closely united in their lives' work that their folk tale anthologies are commonly mentioned only as "Asbjørnsen and Moe." This volume contains the classic "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" and "The Three Billy Goats Gruff," alongside other lesser-known stories...
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
A collection of Norwegian folktales all featuring trolls: The Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Boy Who Became a Lion, a Falcon, and an Ant, Butterball, The Boy and the North Wind, The White Cat in the Dovre Mountain, The Sailors and the Troll, The Eating Competition, and The Troll with No Heart in His Body.
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"New, modern English translation of the folk tales collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, which was first published in Norway in 1841, and a second edition in 1852" --
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First University of Minnesota Press edition.
Physical Desc
188 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-one of the Norwegian folk tales collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe telling of trolls, sprites, princesses, cinderlads, talking cats, and mountains made of glass" --
Series
Publisher
New Vessel Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
136 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Our fourth book in the very popular Very Christmas series, this collection brings together the best Scandinavian holiday stories including classics by Hans Christian Andersen of Denmark; Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerḻf, August Strindberg and Hjalmar ̲Sderberg of Sweden; as well as the acclaimed contemporary Norwegian authors Karl Ove Knausgaard and National Book Award nominee Vigdis Hjorth. These Nordic talescoming from the very region where so...