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Sprache: English
Autor(en): Klara Stroebe,
Genre(s): Kultur- & Erbeliteratur, Mythen, Legenden & Märchen, Sagen,
Aktuelle Wiedergabe
[1/38] Preface
These Norwegian tales of elemental mountain, forest and sea spirits, have been handed down by hinds and huntsmen, wood choppers and fisher folk. They are men who led a hard and lonely life amid primitive surroundings. The Norwegian Fairy Book has an appeal for one and all, since it is a book in which the mirror of fairy-tale reflects human yearnings and aspirations, human loves, ambitions and disillusionments, in an imaginatively glamored, yet not distorted form. [from the book's preface]