Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Folk- Lore and Legends; Scandinavian, by Various, Edited by C. J. T., Translated by C. J. T. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian Author: Various Release Date: February 26, 2005 [eBook #15186] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FOLK-LORE AND LEGENDS; SCANDINAVIAN*** E-text prepared by Wallace McLean, Graeme Mackreth, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team FOLK-LORE AND LEGENDS SCANDINAVIAN W. W. Gibbings 18 Bury St., London, W.C. 1890 PREFATORY NOTE. Thanks to Thiele, to Hylten-Cavallius and Stephens, and to Asbjörnsen and Moe, Scandinavian Folklore is well to the front. Its treasures are many, and of much value. One may be almost sorry to find among them the originals of many of our English tales. Are we indebted to the folk of other nations for all our folk- tales? It would almost seem so. I have introduced into the present volume only one or two stories from the Prose Edda. Space would not allow me to give so much of the Edda as I could have wished.