George Webbe Dasent: 24 books

Embodying the fears, fantasies, and forebodings of the people who lived in northern Europe when the world was a darker and more frightening place, these 42 authentic folktales were culled from the rich legacy of Norse and German mythology by noted folklorist George Webbe Dasent. They include stories...

Sir George Webbe Dasent (1817—1896) was a famous English translator of numerous folk tales, lots of literature works and mythological stories of different cultures.  The Cat on the Dovrefell is a short story describing ironic situation happened to the main character and his “cat”. This...

Sir George Webbe Dasent (1817—1896) was a famous English translator of numerous folk tales, lots of literature works and mythological stories of different cultures.  “Boots Who Ate a Match with the Troll” is a short story about a farmer and his three sons that needed to pay for their father's...

Sir George Webbe Dasent (1817—1896) was a famous English translator of numerous folk tales, lots of literature works and mythological stories of different cultures.  The story will retail about a wise young boy named Boots who got luck to take the Princess to wife and half the kingdom besides...

Sir George Webbe Dasent (1817—1896) was a famous English translator of numerous folk tales, lots of literature works and mythological stories of different cultures. “Gudbrand on the Hillside” is a famous folk tale with a lot of variations in different cultures. The plot of the story describes...

Gisli the Outlaw by George Webbe Dasent FROM THE ICELANDIC WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY C. E. ST. JOHN MILDMAY --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Remarkable collection — the only complete edition of these wonderful tales — contains scores of classic Norwegian tales made even more attractive by 77 illustrations by famed children's artists. Second only to Grimm.

Ten stories from great Asbjørnsen and Moe collection include title story plus "Shortshanks" — the tale of a wee lad who manages to defeat giant ogres — "Princess on the Glass Hill," "Why the Sea Is Salt," "The Twelve Wild Ducks," "The Mastermaid," "Dapplegrim," "Tatterhood," and 2 other stories.

THE events described in the Saga of Gisli the Soursop reach from the end of Harold Fairhair's reign to the middle of the reign of Earl Hacon the Bad, or from about the year 930 to 980. Nothing can be livelier or more truthful than the account contained in it of Norwegian and Icelandic life and manners...

THE EVENTS described in the saga of Gisli the Soursop reach from about the year AD930 to AD980, in a time when the law of Iceland had not yet been established.  Men were ruled by their conscience and Gisli, a champion of Iceland, was outlawed for murder by the Chieftain Bork at the Thorsness Thing,...