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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
DANISH FAIRY TALES DANISH FAIRY TALES - PREFACE HESE Danish
folk-tales, and many more, were originally collected by Svendt
Grund- tvig, a Danish professor and philologist, 1884-1883. He
found that throughout all the country districts, men and women were
Fourteen traditional Danish tales of wizardry, witchery, dark
forests, remote kingdoms, princesses, and wicked stepmothers.
Fourteen traditional Danish tales of wizardry, witchery, dark
forests, remote kingdoms, princesses, and wicked stepmothers.
These Danish folk-tales were originally collected by Svendt
Grundtvig, a Danish professor and philologist (1824-1883). He found
that throughout all the country districts, men and women were
telling stories and reciting ballads that they had learned from
their grandmothers, who, in their turn, had heard them from
crooners of old songs, and tellers of old tales. Professor
Grundtvig realized that these echoes of an earlier time were
precious; that, if they were not perpetuated in written form, they
would be lost. It was a labor of love on his part to collect these
tales; a labor that lasted over twenty years, and that enlisted the
aid of many of his countrymen. Grundtvig says that he has kept the
simplicity and artlessness of the oral tradition; and that, in the
case of varying versions from different parts of the country, he
has taken the purer and more complete form, but has always
preserved the epic unity.The translator of these tales spent a part
of his boyhood in Denmark, where his father was United States
Minister. There he heard many of these stories, which were told him
by a manservant who came from Jutland. Jensen had not read any of
these tales; but they, with many others, were stored in his memory.
He had always known them, he said.
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