copyright 1912; illustrated by Frederick Richardson; Row, Peterson & Company publishing company, Chicago; hardbound, 218 pages; very good condition of boards; pages mostly very good; no dust jacket.
 
from Foreword -
...It is the aim of this little book to bring together only the very best from the rich stories of Norwegian folk-lore.  All these stories have been told many times by the editor to varied audiences of children and to those who are "older grown."...the aim has been to preserve, as much as possible, in vocabulary and idiom, the original folk-lore language...
 
contents -
East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Taper Tom
Why the Bear is Stumpy-Tailed
Reynard and the Cock
Bruin and Reynard Partners
Boots and His Brothers
The Lad Who Went to the North Wind
The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body
The Sheep and the Pig Who Set Up Housekeeping
The Parson and the Clerk
Father Bruin
The Pancake
Why the Sea is Salt
The Squire's Bride
Peik
The Princess Who Could Not Be Silenced
The Twelve Wild Ducks
Gudbrand-on-the-Hillside
The Princess on the Glass Hill
The Husband Who Was to Mind the House
Little Freddy with His Fiddle