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George Webbe Dasent
Book List in Order: 31 titles
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon
- Oct-1988
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K-Gr 4 Barlow has created vibrant watercolor and colored pencil illustrations to accompany the classic George Webbe Dasent translation of this popular Norwegian folk tale. Each full-page illustration and its facing page of text are bordered by two ba...
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East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon and Other Fairy Tales
- Nov-1996
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When a beautiful young girl goes with a great white bear after he saves her family from poverty, she learns he is an enchanted prince. Then he is carried off by the evil witch who enchanted him to marry her troll daughter, and the fearless girl sets ...
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The Story of Burnt Njal
- Mar-2010
- / General Fiction
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What is a Saga? A Saga is a story, or telling in prose, sometimes mixed with verse. There are many kinds of Sagas with varying degrees of truth. There are the mythical Sagas, the historical Sagas of the kings of Norway, and then there are Sagas relat...
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Ananzi Stories
- Sep-2010
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ANANZI or Ahnansi (Ah-nahn-see) "the trickster" is a cunning and intelligent spider and is one of the most important characters of West African and Caribbean folklore. The Anansi tales are believed to have originated in the Ashanti tribe in Ghana. (T...
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Popular Tales from the Norse
- Jan-2011
- / Fantasy
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Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, friends since childhood, collaboratively published a series of Norwegian legends and folktales. In order to overcome language and dialect difficulties, the two modeled their style after the Brothers Grimm. ...
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East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon
- Nov-2012
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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....
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East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon & Other Norwegian Fairy Tales
- Nov-2012
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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 Masterma...
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The Story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga
- Jul-2017
- / General Fiction
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The Story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga In two respects these Icelanders win more of our sympathy than the Greeks and Trojans; for they, like ourselves, are of Northern blood, and in their mighty strivings are unassisted by the ...
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Gisli the Outlaw
- Dec-2017
- / Historical Romance
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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 murd...
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East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon Sir
- Mar-2018
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East O’ the Sun and West O’ the Moon is a beautifully illustrated collection of Norwegian fairy stories -- including the tale of that name -- by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, translated by Sir George Webbe Dasent. It is widely consi...
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Norse Fairy & Folk Tales
- Nov-2020
- / Fantasy
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Meet gullible trolls, enterprising princesses and nefarious wizards in this treasury of 25 Norse fairy tales. Collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in the 19th century, these Norwegian stories are described by Jacob Grimm as ...
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The Story Of Gisli The Outlaw
Sir George Webbe Dasent (1817-1896), was an English writer who was educated at Westminster School, King's College London, and Oxford University, where he was a contemporary of J. T. Delane. In 1840 he was appointed to a diplomatic post in Stockholm, ...
