Norwegian Folktales
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Norwegian Folktales is a collection of Norwegian folktales and legends by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe. It is also known as Asbjørnsen and Moe, after the collectors.
Cover art to 1914 edition, artist: Theodor Kittelsen
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
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Peter Christen Asbjørnsen was a Norwegian writer and scholar. He and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe were collectors of Norwegian folklore. They were so closely united in their lives' work that their folk tale
Norwegian Folktales
…Norwegian Folktales (Norwegian: Norske folkeeventyr) is a collection of Norwegian folktales and legends by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe. It is also known as Asbjørnsen and Moe, after the collectors. Asbjørnsen, a teacher, and Moe, a minister, had been friends for about…
Portrait of Asbjørnsen by Knud Bergslien, 1870
Norske folke- og huldreeventyr. Andet oplag (1896) (Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen)
Specimen of Brisinga endecacnemos collected and named by Asbjørnsen, in the Natural History Museum, Dublin
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen monument in Oslo