Icelandic folk and fairy tales / selected and translated with foreword and notes by May and Hallberg Hallmundsson ; illustrations by Kjartan Gudjonsson. [print]

By:

Jon Arnason, 1819-1888 [Author]

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Icelandic Series: Iceland Review libraryPublication details: Reykjavik, Iceland: Iceland Review, (c)1987.Description: 123 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9979510447
9789979510444

Uniform titles:

Islenzkar josogur og vintyri. Selections. English

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LOC classification:

GR215.H191.I245 1987
GR215

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Contents:

Elves and trolls -- Genesis of the elves -- Field hand -- Magistrate's wife of Burstarfell -- Tunga Bluff -- "Father of eighteen in elfland" -- Hired hand and the lake dwellers -- Of Marbendill -- Drangey consecrated -- Gissur of Botnar -- Hallgerdur of Blafell -- Gilitrurr -- Night-troll -- "Deep indeed the Iceland channels" -- Ghosts and sorceres: "Mother in the pen, pen" -- "Give me back my bone, Gunna" -- "Gone is my glowing skin tone" -- Ghost and the cash box -- Deacon of Myrka -- Wizards of the Westman Island -- Rusty of Irafell -- Tales of Saemundur the learned: Black school -- How Saemundur got his benefice -- Gathering the hay -- Imp whistle -- Imp and the cowherd -- Old Nick's pact with the weaver -- Tales of the Reverend Eirikur of Vogsosar: How Eirikur learned magic in school -- Bull -- Horse theft -- Satin and sinners: Satan went to make a man -- Imp on the church beam -- Dance at Hruni -- Parish pauper -- Ptarmigan -- My Jon's soul -- Outlaw killed -- "Up, my six, in the name of Jesus" -- Bjarni Sveinsson and his sister Dalvor -- Visitation by Bishop of Sjalholt -- Miscellaneous tales: Grimsey and the polar bear -- Tale of a raven -- Sealskin -- Serpent of Lagarfljot -- Convent at Kirkjubaer -- River Oxara -- Story of Prince Hlini -- Bukolla and the boy -- "My old lady wants something for her whorl" -- "Strike it while it's still on my nose" -- "You're lucky, God, the that I can't reach you" -- "I wonder if my boats will go out today" -- "Now I should laugh -- Notes.

Subject: Collection of popular Icelandic folk and fairy tales translated into English. Arranged under three headings: elves and trolls, ghosts and sorcerers, and miscellaneous tales.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)	G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION	Non-fiction	GR215.J62513 1987 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923001848494

Selections from the collection of Jon Arnason.

Foreword -- Elves and trolls -- Genesis of the elves -- Field hand -- Magistrate's wife of Burstarfell -- Tunga Bluff -- "Father of eighteen in elfland" -- Hired hand and the lake dwellers -- Of Marbendill -- Drangey consecrated -- Gissur of Botnar -- Hallgerdur of Blafell -- Gilitrurr -- Night-troll -- "Deep indeed the Iceland channels" -- Ghosts and sorceres: "Mother in the pen, pen" -- "Give me back my bone, Gunna" -- "Gone is my glowing skin tone" -- Ghost and the cash box -- Deacon of Myrka -- Wizards of the Westman Island -- Rusty of Irafell -- Tales of Saemundur the learned: Black school -- How Saemundur got his benefice -- Gathering the hay -- Imp whistle -- Imp and the cowherd -- Old Nick's pact with the weaver -- Tales of the Reverend Eirikur of Vogsosar: How Eirikur learned magic in school -- Bull -- Horse theft -- Satin and sinners: Satan went to make a man -- Imp on the church beam -- Dance at Hruni -- Parish pauper -- Ptarmigan -- My Jon's soul -- Outlaw killed -- "Up, my six, in the name of Jesus" -- Bjarni Sveinsson and his sister Dalvor -- Visitation by Bishop of Sjalholt -- Miscellaneous tales: Grimsey and the polar bear -- Tale of a raven -- Sealskin -- Serpent of Lagarfljot -- Convent at Kirkjubaer -- River Oxara -- Story of Prince Hlini -- Bukolla and the boy -- "My old lady wants something for her whorl" -- "Strike it while it's still on my nose" -- "You're lucky, God, the that I can't reach you" -- "I wonder if my boats will go out today" -- "Now I should laugh -- Notes.

Collection of popular Icelandic folk and fairy tales translated into English. Arranged under three headings: elves and trolls, ghosts and sorcerers, and miscellaneous tales.

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