PREFACE
THE Tales contained in this volume form a series of those "Popular Tales from the Norse," which have been received with much favour in this country, and of which three editions have been published. A part of them appeared some years ago in Once a Week, from which they have been reprinted by permission of the proprietors—the Norse originals, from which they were transited, having been communicated by the translator's friend, P. Chr. Asbjörnsen, to various Christmas books published in Christiania. In 1871, Mr. Asbjörnsen collected these scattered Tales and added some more to them, which he published under the title "Norske Folke-Eventyr fortalte of P. Chr. Asbjörnsen, Ny Samling." It is from this new series, as revised by the collector, that the present version has
