MAIDEN SWANWHITE AND MAIDEN FOXTAIL

Myths

Folk-Lore and Legends: Scandinavian

by Charles John TIBBITS (1861 - 1935)

Thanks to Thiele, to Hylten-Cavallius and Stephens, and to Asbjörnsen and Moe, Scandinavian Folklore is well to the front. Its treasures are many, and of much value. One may be almost sorry to find among them the originals of many of our English tales. Are we indebted to the folk of other nations for all our folk-tales? It would almost seem so. I have introduced into the present volume only one or two stories from the Prose Edda. Space would not allow me to give so much of the Edda as I could have wished. In selecting and translating the matter for this volume, I have endeavoured to make the book such as would afford its readers a fair general view of the main features of the Folklore of the North. - Summary by Charles John Tibbits

Listen next episodes of Folk-Lore and Legends: Scandinavian:
GUDBRAND , HOLGER DANSKE , HOW LOKI WAGERED HIS HEAD , HOW THORSTON BECAME RICH , ORIGIN OF TIIS LAKE , TALES FROM THE PROSE EDDA , TALES OF THE NISSES , TALES OF TREASURE , THE ADVENTURES OF JOHN DIETRICH , THE DEATH OF BALDUR , THE DWARF-SWORD TIRFING , THE DWARFS' BANQUET , THE ICELANDIC SORCERESSES , THE LEGEND OF THORGUNNA , THE LITTLE GLASS SHOE , THE PUNISHMENT OF LOKI , THE STRANGE BUILDER , THE THREE DOGS , THERE ARE SUCH WOMEN , THOR'S JOURNEY TO THE LAND OF GIANTS and HOW THOR WENT A-FISHING