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Can I read Folktales of Norway (Folktales of the World) on EtoBox?
Folktales of Norway (Folktales of the World) by Reidar Christiansen is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Folktales of Norway (Folktales of the World) about?
Often lacking the clear episodic structure of folktales about talking animals and magic objects, legends grow from retellings of personal experiences. Christiansen isolated some seventy-seven legend types, and many of these are represented here in absorbing stories of St. Olaf, hidden treasures, witches, and spirits of the air, water, and earth. The ugly, massively strong, but slow-witted trolls are familiar to English-speaking readers. Less well-known, but the subject of an enormous number of l
Who reads Folktales of Norway (Folktales of the World)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Reidar Christiansen
- Publisher
- Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1964
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226105109
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, Folklore, Anthropology
- Rating
- 3.95 / 5 (41 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14