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East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon & Other Norwegian Fairy Tales
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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 Mastermaid," "Dapplegrim," "Tatterhood," and 2 other stories.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'll be moving this and other collections back and forth between my currently-reading shelf to my read and ongoing-collections shelves.
-East O' The Sun & West O' The Moon
I've read this the first time and will read it again and comment
more when I can get caught up on things. For now, I love it. - Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I grew up with this collection of Norwegian folktales, so it is hard to attempt to review it! I won't summarize all 59 stories, but the main story, East o the Sun, is about a girl who is taken by a bear to a distant land to be his wife. During the night he becomes a human, but she never sees him until she lights a candle, somehow trapping him into bear form. She then has to go on an adventure all over to try to free him from a troll curse to become her human husband. The old-fashioned illustrations are not my favorite, but they are interesting. And I have to admit that I don't actually like most of the stories in this collection! I love that they are adventurous, magical, and involve trolls, but I hate the lack of realistic characters and the weirdly contrived problems and solutions. Ultimately, this is why I don't enjoy reading a lot of traditional literature. I prefer realistic characters and conflicts, even if there is magic and adventure.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5From page 664 of volume 55 of The Anerican Review of Reviews: "Short, easily remembered fairy tales that will prove treasures tompersons who havea knack of telling stories to children. There are fascinating tales of trolls, ogres, witches of the Northland, fairy princesses, and marveloushorses of more than human intelligence." I read it in 1936 or 1937 and can't remember anything about it but am reasonably sure that it is entitled to at leasst three stars.
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