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• Norwegian Folk Tales vol. 1
• Norwegian Folk Tales vol. 2
• Norwegian Folk Tales Additional
• Norwegian Hulder Tales and Folk Legends vol. 1
• Norwegian Hulder Tales and Folk Legends vol. 2
• Norwegian Hulder Tales and Folk Legends Additional

Below is the table of contents for the folk tales and -legends published by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, beginning in 1841, with links to each text as I post it. I will be publishing the whole collection when it is ready.

Norwegian Folk Tales
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen & Jørgen Moe

Volume 1 (1852 edition)

• Askeladden Who Stole the Troll’s Silver Ducks
• The Gjertrud-bird
• Bird Dam
• The Princess No One Could Dumbfound
• Rich Per Merchant
• Askeladden Who Had an Eating Contest with a Troll
• The Boy Who Went to the North Wind and Demanded Back His Flour
• The Virgin Mary as Godmother
• The Three Princesses in Kvittenland
• Some Women Are Such
• Everyone Thinks the Best of Their Own Children
• A Suitor’s Story
• The Three Aunts
• The Widow’s Son
• The Man’s Daughter and the Woman’s Daughter
• The Cock and the Hen in the Nutwood
• The Bear and the Fox:
  • Why the Bear Is Stub-tailed
  • The Fox Cheats the Bear Out of His Christmas Fare
• Gudbrand on the Hill
• Kari Woodenskirt
• The Fox as Herder
• The Smith They Dared Not Let into Hell
• The Cock and the Hen
• The Cock, the Cuckoo, and the Blackcock
• Lillekort
• The Doll in the Grass
• Paul Nextdoor
• Soria Moria Palace
• Herre-Per
• Little Lucy Goosegirl
• The Boy and the Devil
• The Seven Foals
• Giske
• The Twelve Wild Ducks
• The Master Thief
• The Hen Trips in the Mountain
• The Giant Who Had Not His Heart on Him
• Grim Buckskin
• The One Whom All Women Love Suffers No Want
• Askeladden Who Made the Princess Accuse Him of Lying
• The Three Billy-goats Gruff
• East of the Sun and West of the Moon
• The Hen Who Went to Dovre Mountain so All the World Would Not End
• The Man Who Would Look After the Home
• Little Thumb
• Håken Borkenskjegg
• The Master Maid
• Well Done and Ill Paid
• Faithful and Unfaithful
• Per, Pål, and Espen Askeladd
• The Quern that Stands Milling on the Bottom of the Sea
• The Maiden on the Glass Mountain
• Buttertub
• Big Per and Little Per
• Tatterhood
• The Bush Bride
• The Molly of Dovre
• Farmer Weatherbeard
• The Blue Ribbon

Volume 2 (1871 edition)

• The Ram and the Pig Who Should Go to the Forest and Live by Themselves
• Friends in Life and Death
• The Boy Who Should Serve for Three Years Without Pay
• The Woman Against the Current
• The Seventh Father of the House
• Three Lemons
• The Sweetheart in the Forest
• Neither Driving Nor Riding
• The Skipper and Old Erik
• The Boy Who Changed Himself into a Lion, a Falcon, and an Ant
• The Tobacco Boy
• The Golden Castle that Hung in the Air
• The Hare Who Had Married
• The Bear and the Fox
  • Let Go the Spruce Root and Take the Fox’s Leg
  • They Wager on Bacon and a Bumblebee Hive
  • They Should Own a Field in Common
  • Mikkel Wants to Taste Horse Meat
• Goodman Bear
• Redfox and Askeladden
• The Boy Who Would Propose to the Daughter of Mother in the Corner
• Stupid Husbands and Trolls for Wives
• Askeladden and the Good Helpers
• The Boy Who Would Be A Merchant
• Hairblow Who Home Will Never Go
• The Charcoal Burner
• The Golden Bird
• The Green Knight
• Tyri-Hans Who Made the King’s Daughter Laugh
• The Parson and the Sexton
• Wrong-Mattis
• The Sexton in Our Village
• The Young Boys Who Met the Trolls in Hedal Forest
• White Bear King Valemon
• The Box with Something Strange In
• The Town Mouse and the Fell Mouse
• Good day, man! — Axe Shaft
• The Cock and the Fox
• The World’s Pay Is No Different
• Mumble Goose-egg
• Veslefrikk with His Fiddle
• Herding the King’s Hares
• The Merchant’s Boy with the Load of Gamalost
• The Companion
• Peik
• The Molly Who Was a Terror at Eating
• The Cockerel Who Fell into the Brewing Vat
• The Pancake
• The Boy with the Beer Keg

Additional

• The Honest Penny
• Father Himself Sitting in the Cabin
• The Devil and the Bailiff
• The Stabbur Key in the Spinning Wheel Distaff
• “Shoo, puss! Will you get off the table!”
• Seven Year-old Porridge
• The Gentleman’s Bride
• The Three King’s Daughters in the Mountain Blue
• The Story of a Parson
• The Fisher’s Sons
• The Pig and His Way of Life
• Gullfebla
• The Virgin Mary and the Swallow
• The Parson’s Mother
• The Widow Fox
• Our Lord and St Peter Out Wandering
• Parson Sausage

Norwegian Hulder Tales and Folk Legends
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

Volume 1, 1845

• Legends from the Mill
• The King of Ekeberg
• Matthias the Shooter’s Stories
• Berthe Tuppenhaug’s Stories
• An Evening Hour in the District Governor’s Kitchen
• Hulder-kin
• A Halling with Angelica Root
• Lunde-kin
• An Old-fashioned Christmas Eve
• A Night in the Northern Mark
• An Evening by Andelven
• The Gravedigger’s Tales
• The Jutul and Johannes Blessom
• From the Mountain and the Pasture

Volume 2, 1848

• Mountain Scenes
  • An Evening at the Pasture
  • A Reindeer Hunt in the Ronde Mountains
• The Plank Drivers
• A Capercaillie Lek in Holleia
• A Signing Wife
• A Summer’s Night in Krokskogen
• Taters

Additional

• An Evening at the Neighbour’s Tenement
• From Sognefjord
• At Sea
  • The Cormorants from Utrøst
  • The Tufte-folk on Sandflesa
  • Mackerel Trolling
  • On the Alexandrian Height
• The Christmas Visit at the Parsonage
• A Forested Valley in the West Country