About the Norwegian Folktales Project

The collection

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe collected and published Norwegian folk tales and legends in the middle of the 19^th century. Whilst some of the tales are very well known in the English-speaking world, such as "The Three Billy-goats Gruff," many more are completely unknown, never having been translated.

Imagine! All the trolls and hulders and nisses you may not have read about, yet.

The project

My intention with this project is to give the collection the treatment it deserves as a part of our world literature, and translate and publish the folklore that Asbjørnsen and Moe collected, in English analogues to the original publications. I am beginning with Peter Christen Asbjørnsen's Norwegian Hulder Tales and Folk Legends (1845/ 48), which has not appeared in English before.

As I progress, I will continue to publish each tale on this site, when I have edited it enough to call it a final draft.

The mailing list

Please consider subscribing to the mailing list (see below) for one or more of the following reasons:

• You would like to do something to show that you consider this project worthwhile
• You would like to hear about the progess I am making (once a month, at most)
• You would eventually like to purchase the collections—in paper format, or as an e-book—either for yourself, or as a gift
• You are a humanist who supports the liberal arts

(I won't be asking you for any money before I have a book to sell you.)

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(I will use the same list for updates on my translations of Regine Normann's literary tales.)