Icelandic Fairy Tales
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About This Book
Although some of these tales bear a similarity to the well-known standard fairy tales, which have been the delight of countless children for many generations, they all possess an originality peculiarly their own.It is remarkable too that, whereas in most southern legends it is always the prince who delivers the princess and performs the heroic and valorous deeds, in these Icelandic tales it is for the most part the young princess or peasant maiden who undergoes all the hardships and trials, and after countless dangers rescues the prince who has fallen under the ban of some wicked witch or gian...
Chapters (51)
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- Icelandic Fairy Tales
- The Legend of the King’s Three Sons
- Helga
- Thorstein
- CHAPTER I. HOW THORSTEIN LOST HIS KINGDOM.
- CHAPTER II. HIS ARRIVAL AT THE GIANT’S CASTLE.
- CHAPTER III. THE MYSTERY OF THE LOCKED ROOM.
- CHAPTER IV. HOW THORSTEIN’S KIND ACTIONS RECEIVED THEIR REWARD.
- Sigurd
- CHAPTER I. SIGURD FINDS A FRIEND IN HIS STEPMOTHER.
- CHAPTER II. HE WRESTLES WITH THE GIANT SISTERS.
- CHAPTER III. HIS MEETING WITH HELGA.
- CHAPTER IV. HIS ESCAPE ON THE WONDERFUL HORSE GULLFAXI.
- Lineik and Laufey
- The Five Brothers
- Hermod and Hadvör
- Ingebjörg
- Hans
- CHAPTER I. HANS STARTS ON HIS TRAVELS.
- CHAPTER II. HIS WONDERFUL ADVENTURES, AND HOW HE RETURNED GOOD FOR EVIL.
- The Giantess and the Granite Boat
- Greybeard
- CHAPTER I. THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF GEIR.
- CHAPTER II. HOW GREYBEARD OUTWITTED THE KING AND WON PRINCESS SIGRID.
- Litill, Tritill, the Birds, and the Peasant Lad
- Laughing Ingibjörg
- CHAPTER I. THORWALD AND INGIBJÖRG ARE CRUELLY TREATED BY THEIR STEPMOTHER, WHO TRIES TO GET RID OF THEM.
- CHAPTER II. HOW THORWALD AND INGIBJÖRG FOUND THEMSELVES AT THE WITCH’S ISLAND, AND WHAT THEY DID.
- CHAPTER III. THEIR FURTHER ADVENTURES AND ESCAPE.
- CHAPTER IV. THE KING’S RETURN, AND QUEEN GUDA’S RELEASE FROM THE WITCH’S THRALL.
- The Three Peasant Maidens
- CHAPTER I. HOW QUEEN HERTHA FELL FROM HER HIGH ESTATE.
- CHAPTER II. WHAT HAD BEFALLEN THE TWO LITTLE PRINCES AND THEIR SISTER.
- CHAPTER III. OLGA’S COURAGE RESCUES HER BROTHERS, QUEEN HERTHA IS RESTORED TO HER HUSBAND, AND THE PARENTS RECOVER THEIR CHILDREN.
- The Fair and the Dark Isolde
- CHAPTER I. DEATH OF THE QUEEN. THE KING REMARRIES, AND PROCEEDS ON A TOUR THROUGH HIS KINGDOM.
- CHAPTER II. WHAT BEFALLS “FAIR ISOLDE” AFTER HER FATHER HAS GONE.
- CHAPTER III. “FAIR ISOLDE” ESCAPES, AND DISGUISES HERSELF.
- CHAPTER IV. FERTRAM FALLS UNDER A SPELL, AND IS BETROTHED TO “DARK ISOLDE.”
- CHAPTER V. THE SPELL IS BROKEN, AND THE WICKED QUEEN’S DESIGNS ARE FRUSTRATED.
- Prince Hlini
- Fertram and Hildur
- New Illustrated Fairy Tales.
- Colophon
- Availability
- Metadata
- Revision History
- External References
- Corrections
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