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Anonymous. A Selection from the Norse Tales for the Use of Children
A Selection from the Norse Tales for the Use of Children
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TRUE AND UNTRUE
THE OLD DAME AND HER HEN
EAST O’ THE SUN AND WEST O’ THE MOON
BOOTS WHO ATE A MATCH WITH THE TROLL
BOOTS, WHO MADE THE PRINCESS SAY, “THAT’S A STORY.”
THE TWELVE WILD DUCKS
THE GIANT WHO HAD NO HEART IN HIS BODY
THE FOX AS HERDSMAN
THE CAT ON THE DOVREFELL
PRINCESS ON THE GLASS HILL
HOW ONE WENT OUT TO WOO
THE COCK AND HEN
THE TWO STEP-SISTERS
BUTTERCUP
TAMING THE SHREW
SHORTSHANKS
GUDBRAND ON THE HILL-SIDE
THE BLUE BELT
WHY THE BEAR IS STUMPY-TAILED
NOT A PIN TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THEM
ONE’S OWN CHILDREN ARE ALWAYS PRETTIEST
THE THREE PRINCESSES OF WHITELAND
THE LASSIE AND HER GODMOTHER
THE THREE AUNTS
THE COCK, THE CUCKOO, AND THE BLACK-COCK
RICH PETER THE PEDLAR
BOOTS AND THE TROLL
THE LAD WHO WENT TO THE NORTH WIND
THE BEST WISH
THE THREE BILLY-GOATS GRUFF
WELL DONE AND ILL PAID
THE HUSBAND WHO WAS TO MIND THE HOUSE
DAPPLEGRIM
THE SEVEN FOALS
THE WIDOW’S SON
BUSHY BRIDE
BOOTS AND HIS BROTHERS
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Anonymous
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Now, when the girl had been in the hill a while longer, she did the very same thing with her other sister. She put her head on her shoulders, smeared her with ointment out of the flask, brought her to life, and stuffed her into the sack; but this time she crammed in also as much gold and silver as the sack would hold, and over all laid a very little food.
“Dear friend,” she said to the Man o’ the Hill, “you really must run home to my mother with a little food again; and mind you don’t look into the sack.”
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