Norwegian Folktales
Trolls that burst at sunrise, a youngest son called Ash Lad who wins by cheek rather than strength, three goats crossing a bridge, and the bear-husband of East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Asbjørnsen and Moe collected in the field and set the tales down in a plain Norwegian idiom rather than in Danish, which made the book a landmark of the national language as well as of folklore. Its narrative voice, dry and oral and unadorned, became the model for how Scandinavian folktales are told in print.
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Lineage
- modeled on ↑ Children's and Household Tales
- ↓ Popular Tales of the West Highlands
- ↓ East of the Sun and West of the Moon
- ↓ Peer Gynt
Attributes
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
Symbol / motif
Conflict
Culture / tradition
Closest analogues
- 63% · 13 shared
- 53% · 12 shared
- 51% · 11 shared
- 51% · 11 shared
- 51% · 10 shared
- 47% · 11 shared