Dasent. Popular Tales From the Norse.

Today's free book is Popular Tales From the Norse (1904) by George Webbe Dasent. For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

This book is available at Baldwin Project, Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Sacred Texts, Hathi Trust, Google Books, and LibriVox. There is also a free Kindle ebook.



Table of Contents

True and Untrue
Why the Sea Is Salt
The Old Dame and Her Hen
East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon
Boots Who Ate a Match with the Troll
Hacon Grizzlebeard
Boots Who Made the Princess Say, ''That's A Story.''
The Twelve Ducks
The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body
The Fox as Herdsman
The Mastermaid
The Cat on the Dovrefell
Princess on the Glass Hill
How One Went Out to Woo
The Cock and Hen
The Master-Smith
The Two Step-Sisters
Buttercup
Taming the Shrew
Shortshanks
Gudbrand on the Hill-side
The Blue Belt
Why the Bear Is Stumpy-Tailed
Not a Pin to Choose Between Them
One's Own Children Are Always Prettiest
The Three Princesses of Whiteland
The Lassie and Her Godmother
The Three Aunts
The Cock, the Cuckoo, and the Blackcock
Rich Peter the Pedlar
Gertrude's Bird
Boots and the Troll
Goosey Grizzel
The Lad Who Went to the North Wind
The Master Theif
The Best Wish
The Three Billy-Goats Gruff
Well Done and Ill Paid
The Husband Who Was to Mind the House
Dapplegrim
Farmer Weathersky
Lord Peter
The Seven Foals
The Widow's Son
Bushy Bride
Boots and His Brothers
Big Peter and Little Peter
Tatterhood
The Cock and Hen That Went to the Dovrefell
Katie Woodencloak
Thumbikin
Doll i' the Grass
The Lad and the Deil
The Cock and Hen a-Nutting
The Big Bird Dan
Soria Moria Castle
Bruin and Reynard
Tom Totherhouse
Little Annie the Goose-Girl

Appendix: Ananzi Stories from the West Indies
* Dasent knew of these stories because of his family ties to St. Vincent in the Caribbean; more in this Memoir.

Why the Jack-Spaniard's Waist Is Small
Ananzi and the Lion
Ananzi and Quanqua
The Ear of Corn and the Twelve Men
The King and the Ant's Tree
The Little Child and the Pumpkin Tree
The Brother and His Sisters
The Girl and the Fish
The Lion, The Goat, and The Baboon
Ananzi and Baboon
The Man and the Doukana Tree
Nancy Fairy
The Dancing Gang