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Norwegian Folk Tales / Asbjornsen

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AT numbers assigned to stories can come from the author of the collection or from Ashlimann's
 A Guide to Folktales in the English Language.

Anything not assigned an AT number has NA, for "not available" or "not assigned." 

Title AT
Ash Lad and the Good Helpers 513A, 513B
Ash Lad Who Had an Eating Match with the Troll 1060, 1088
Ash Lad Who Made the Pricess Say, "You're a Liar" 852
Bear the the Fox Who Made a Bet 7
Boy with the Beer Keg 332
Boys Who Met the Trolls in the Hedal Woods NA
Butterball 327C
Charcoal Burner 1641
Cock and the Fox 6
Companion 507A
Devil and the Bailiff NA
Fox as Sheherd NA
Golden Bird 551
Golden Castle that Hung in the Air 531
Good Day, Fellow! Axe Handle! 1698J
Gudbrand of the Hillside NA
Hare Who Had Been Married 96*
House Mouse the the Country Mouse 112
Key in the Distaff 1453
Little Freddie with His Fiddle 592
Mill That Grinds at the Bottom of the Sea NA
Not Driving and Not Riding 875
Old Woman Against the Stream 1365A
Parson and the Sexton 922
Princess Who Always Had to Have the Last Word 853
Ram and the Pig Who Went Into the Woods 130
Seventh Father of the House NA
Soria Moria Castle 560
Squire Per 545B
Squire's Bride 1440
Tabby Who was Such a Terrible Glutton 2027
Taper-Tom Who Made the Princess Laugh 571
Three Princesses in the Mountain-in-the-Blue 301
Twelve Wild Ducks 451
White-Bear-King-Valemon 425A

Folktales of Norway / Christiansen

Folktales of Norway / Reidar Christiansen

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The links below go to individual stories in this book. 
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Title AT
"Hour has come but not the Man!" NA
Al-Black and All-White 303
Altarpiece in Ringsaker Church NA
Battle between the Sea Draugs and the Land Draugs NA
Bird Dam 301D*
Black School NA
Blue Band 590
Cardplayers and the Devil NA
Carried by the Evil One NA
Changling Betrays His Age NA
Christmas Visitors and the Tabby Cat 1161
Christmas Visitors at Kvame NA
Church Found in the Woods NA
Cormorants from Utrost NA
Disposing of a Changeling NA
Disputed Site for a Church at Hosanger NA
Disputed Site for a Church at Slagen NA
Disputed Site for a Church at Voss NA
Drinking Horn Stolenfrom the Huldre-Folk at Hifjell NA
Drinking Horn Stolenfrom the Huldre-Folk at Vallerhaug NA
Drinking Horn Stolenfrom the Huldre-Folk at Vellerhaug NA
Driving Out the Snakes NA
Escape from the Huldre-Folk NA
Finn King's Daughter NA
Finn Messenger NA
Following the Witch NA
Food from the Huldre Folk at Ellefstad NA
Food from the Huldre Folk on the Mountain NA
Gardvord Beats up a Troll NA
Girl and the Robbers NA
Girl Who Was Taken NA
Giske 1383
Grateful Merman NA
Haaken Grizzle beard 900
Haug-Folk help a Man NA
Heavy Load NA
Hen is Tripping in the Mountain 311
Hidden Treasures: Copper Cauldron NA
Hidden Treasures: Rakbjorg Treasure NA
Hidden Treasures: The Silver King NA

 

Horse that carried the corpses across the Mountains NA
Hulder Calls the Dairymaids NA
Huldre-Folk Tell the Date NA
Human Soul Out Wandering as a Fly NA
Human Soul Out Wandering as a Mouse NA
Inexperienced Use of the Black Book 1174
Interrupted Huldre Wedding at Melbustad NA
Interrupted Huldre Wedding at Norstuhov NA
Jostedal Grouse NA
Jutul and Johannes Blessom NA
King Olav and the Gyger NA
King Olav, Master Builder of Trondheim Cathedral 500
King Olav, Master Building of Seljord Church 500
King Olav, the National Saint NA
Little Lucy Goosey Girl 870A
Living with the Huldre-Folk at Aanstad NA
Living with the Huldre-Folk in a Knoll NA
Making the Devil Carry the Cart NA
Married to a Hulder NA
Mastermind 313
Message from the Huldre-folk that Someone Died NA
Midnight Mass of the Dead NA
Midwife to the Huldre-Folk at Ekeberg NA
Midwife to the Huldre-Folk at Nore NA
Mop Head 711
New Breeches NA
Nisse Fighting NA
Nisse's Revenge NA
Old Troll and the Handshake 726
One Who is Loved by Womankind Will Never Find Himself in Need 580
Origin of the Huldre-Folk: the Hidden Children of Eve NA
Origin of the Huldre-Folk: the Huldre Minister NA
Oskorei Fear the Cross NA
Outrunning a Hulder NA
Outwitting the Huldre Suitor with Gun Fire NA
Outwitting the Huldre Suitor with Magic Herbs NA
Over the Cliff NA
Plague as an Old Had is Ferried across a river NA
Prospects of the Huldre-Folk for Salvation NA
Removing a buidling to suit those under the ground NA
Sea Horse and the Sea Serpent NA
Sea Serpent in Lake Mjosen NA
Seven Foals 471
Shapeshifting at Harvest Time NA
Shapeshifting in Faarland NA
Sickly Changeling NA
Some Wives are that Way 1384
Stupid Men and Shrewish Wives 1406
Svein Unafraid 500
Svein Unafraid 810
The Man Who Became Huldrin NA
Three Princesses in Whittenland 400
Trolls Resent a Disturbance NA
Tufte-Fol on Sandflesa NA
Tunkall NA
Urdebo Rockfall NA
Witches' Sabbath NA
Witch's Daughter NA
Woman helps a Hulder NA