The Swedish Fairy Book

Read by Hox

Klara Stroebe was a noted collector of Scandinavian folk and fairy tales in the 19th Century. Many of these were translated into English and published by Frederick Herman Martens. These are 28 selected "Swedish" fairy tales, part of Stroebe's larger collection in Swedish. Martens wrote that he selected these particular stories for translation into English because he felt they appeared most colorful and entertaining for young readers and also most Swedish in their "flavor". Martens made no attempt to rewrite these tales in their translation, so the Swedish flavor appears to be retained. They were faithfully narrated in the simple, naive manner of their traditional rendering. (Summary by Hox)

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queue_music Chapters 29

1 00 - Preface 2:02
2 01 - Knoes 11:16
3 02 - Lasse, My Thrall! 30:25
4 03 - Finn, the Giant, and the Minster of Lund 3:23
5 04 - The Skalunda Giant 2:57
6 05 - Yuletide Specters 4:34
7 06 - Silverwhite and Lillwacker 25:44
8 07 - Stompe Pilt 3:34
9 08 - The Girl and the Snake 3:46
10 09 - Faithful and Unfaithful 16:38
11 10 - Starkad and Bale 3:11
12 11 - The Werewolf 24:18
13 12 - First Born, First Wed 28:09
14 13 - The Lame Dog 18:56
15 14 - The Mount of the Golden Queen 7:52
16 15 - Old Hopgiant 4:21
17 16 - The Princess and the Glass Mountain 28:38
18 17 - Queen Crane 13:26
19 18 - Tales of the Trolls 4:30
20 19 - Charcoal Nils and the Trollwoman 7:40
21 20 - The Three Dogs 30:49
22 21 - The Poor Devil 1:55
23 22 - How Smaland and Schonen Came to Be 3:13
24 23 - The Evil One and Kitta Grau 6:14
25 24 - The Lady of Pintorp 6:58
26 25 - The Specter in Fjelkinge 4:41
27 26 - The Rooster, the Hand-Mill, and the Swarm of Hornets 6:46
28 27 - Torre Jeppe 3:49
29 28 - The Man Who Died on Holy Innocents' Day 3:23