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Popular Tales from the Norse

by Sir George Webbe DASENT (1817 - 1896)

39 - Boots and the Troll

The most careless reader can hardly fail to see that many of the Tales in this volume have the same groundwork as those with which he has been familiar from his earliest youth. They are Nursery Tales, in fact, of the days when there were tales in nurseries--old wives' fables, which have faded away before the light of gas and the power of steam. (Excerpt from Popular Tales from the Norse.)

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40 - Goosey Grizzel , 41 - The Lad Who Went to the North Wind , 42 - The Master-Thief , 43 - The Best Wish , 44 - The Three Billy-Goats Gruff , 45 - Well Done and Ill Paid , 46 - The Husband Who Was to Mind the House , 47 - Dapplegrim , 48 - Farmer Weathersky , 49 - Lord Peter , 50 - The Seven Foals , 51 - The Widow's Son , 52 - Bushy Bride / Boots and his brothers , 53 - Big Peter and Little Peter , 54 - Tatterhood , 55 - The Cock and Hen that Went to the Dovrefell , 56 - Katie Woodencloak , 57 - Thumbikin , 58 - Doll i' the Grass , 59 - The Lad and the Devil , 60 - The Cock and Hen a-Nutting , 61 - The Big Bird Dan , 62 - Soria Moria Castle , 63 - Bruin and Reynard , 64 - Tom Totherhouse , 65 - Little Annie the Goose-Girl , 66 - Introduction to Appendix , 67 - Why the Jack-Spaniard's Waist is Small , 68 - Ananzi and the Lion , 69 - Ananzi and the Quanqua , 70 - The Ear of Corn and the Twelve Men , 71 - The King and the Ant's Tree , 72 - The Little Child and the Pumpkin Tree , 73 - The Brother and His Sisters , 74 - The Girl and the Fish , 75 - The Lion, the Goat, and the Baboon , 76 - Ananzi and Baboon , 77 - The Man and the Doukana Tree , 78 - Nancy Fairy , 79 - The Dancing Gang