East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North

PREFACE

A folk-tale, in its primitive plainness of word and entire absence of complexity in thought, is peculiarly sensitive and susceptible to the touch of stranger hands; and he who has been able to acquaint himself with the _Norske Folkeeventyr_ of Asbjörnsen and Moe (from which these stories are selected), has an advantage over the reader of an English rendering. Of this advanta...