Scandinavian Folk & Fairy Tales

Overview:

• Title: Scandinavian Folk & Fairy Tales
• Author: Claire Booss
• Year: 1984
• ISBN-10: 0517436205
• Publisher: Gramercy Books
• Pages: xxii+666
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Anthology
• Title Reference: The Fisherman and the Draug
• Notes: The cover artwork is signed by artist in upper left corner. The stories & illustrations were originally published in the following books: Norwegian (all by Asbjørnsen & Moe)-Round the Yule-Log (1881). {{Tr|H.L. Brækstad}}, illustrated by Otto Sinding. Tales from the Fjeld (1874). {{Tr|George W. Dasent}}, illustrated by Moyr Smith. Swedish-Baron G. Djurklou, Fairy Tales from the Swedish (1901). {{Tr|H.L. Brækstad}}, illustrated by Carl Larsson & Theodor Kittelsen. Herman Hofberg, Swedish Fairy Tales (1888). {{Tr|W.H. Myers}}, illustrated by J.W. Wallander, Jenny Nyström, Vicke Andrén, P.D. Holm, C.G. Hellqvist, Georg von Rosen, A.G. Koskull, J.A. Malmström, Johan Tirén & A. Andersson. Finnish-Tales from a Finnish Tupa (1936), by {{A|James Cloyd Bowman}} & {{A|Margery Bianco}} & illustrated by Laura Bannon. Icelandic (Jon Arnason)-Icelandic Legends (Vol.1-1864). {{Tr|George E.J. Powell}} & {{A|Eiríkr Magnússon}}, illustrations by Messrs. Zwecker, Worms, Powell, etc. Others (Swedish & Danish):Hyltén-Cavallius & Stephens, Carit Etlar, C. Molbech & J.M. Thiele, Yule-Tide Stories (1853). {{Tr|{{A|Benjamin Thorpe}}}}. Jonas Lie-Weird Tales from Northern Seas (1893). {{Tr|{{A|R. Nisbet Bain}}}} & illustrated by Laurence Housman. Hans Christian Andersen-'The Swineherd' from Stories & Fairy Tales (1897). {{Tr|Oskar Sommer}} & illustrated by Arthur J. Gaskin. All other tales from Andersen are from Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales: A New Translation (1867). {{Tr|{{A|Mrs. H. B. Paull}}}} & illustrated by Mrs. (M.A.) Kemp & Miss Runciman. Other illustrations for Andersen's tales are from Alfred Walter Bayes & Vilhelm Pedersen.