[Next Project] Norwegian Folktales by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe. Translated by George Dasent.

[Harry Lund]

Could I sign up for Norwegian Folktales from the SE Wanted list? 

Below are the two volumes translated by Dasent, with corresponding scans.  Assuming I can proceed, I would like to confirm if I should include Dasent's prefaces and introductory content from each volume.

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/8933

https://archive.org/details/populartalesfro00moegoog/page/n22/mode/1up

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/36385

https://archive.org/details/talesfromfjelda00dasegoog/page/n23/mode/1up

Thanks,

Harry

[Alex Cabal]

Sure. Yes, I think you can keep the preface, it's interesting. Both
volumes will be one ebook. Please send a link to your repo once you get
started. Thanks!

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[Harry Lund]

Thanks Alex, here is a link to my repo:

https://github.com/hlund05/peter-christen-asbjornsen_jorgen-moe_norwegian-folktales_george-dasent

[Alex Cabal]

OK, Vince will manage this with Emma reviewing.

On 4/10/25 9:10 PM, Harry Lund wrote:
> Thanks Alex, here is a link to my repo:
>
> https://github.com/hlund05/peter-christen-asbjornsen_jorgen-
> moe_norwegian-folktales_george-dasent
>
> On Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 4:21:35 PM UTC-4 Alex Cabal wrote:
>
> Sure. Yes, I think you can keep the preface, it's interesting. Both
> volumes will be one ebook. Please send a link to your repo once you get
> started. Thanks!
>
> On 4/10/25 9:43 AM, Harry Lund wrote:
> > Could I sign up for Norwegian Folktales from the SE Wanted list?
> >
> > Below are the two volumes translated by Dasent, with corresponding
> > scans.  Assuming I can proceed, I would like to confirm if I should
> > include Dasent's prefaces and introductory content from each volume.
> >

> > https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/8933 <https://gutenberg.org/
> ebooks/8933>
> > https://archive.org/details/populartalesfro00moegoog/page/n22/
> mode/1up <https://archive.org/details/populartalesfro00moegoog/page/
> n22/mode/1up>
> >
> > https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/36385 <https://gutenberg.org/
> ebooks/36385>
> > https://archive.org/details/talesfromfjelda00dasegoog/page/n23/
> mode/1up <https://archive.org/details/talesfromfjelda00dasegoog/
> page/n23/mode/1up>

> >
> > Thanks,
> > Harry
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[Harry Lund]

Thanks all.  I wanted to follow up with a few more content questions:

1. Since I’m including prefaces from both books, should I structure my ebook as two book sections (i.e. Popular Tales from the Norse and Tales from the Fjeld) with the relevant prefaces and stories underneath each?
2. In Popular Tales from the Norse, Dasent includes an appendix of tales from West African / Caribbean folklore, perhaps as an interesting point of comparison?  As these are unrelated to the Norwegian authors, can I remove them?
3. In Tales from the Fjeld, Dasent starts off by weaving the stories into an imagined conversation between two friends, but according to his preface he “grew weary of the setting and framework, and when about a third of the volume had been thus framed, he resolved to let the Tales speak for themselves.”  Later editions after Dasent’s death removed this framework entirely.  Can I remove it from the text as well, for clarity and to focus on the tales authored by Asbjørnsen and Moe?

[Vince]

1. I would think so, yes.
2. Well, this is probably an Alex call, but I see no reason to drop them. They were included here, and they wouldn’t appear in any other SE book, so why remove them? He obviously knew they were unrelated to the Norwegian authors when he included them.
3. Again, this is probably an Alex call, but I don’t see a reason to delete these, either, and at least in the case of Haunted Mill and Honest Penny, there’s interweaving that might be difficult to set straight.

[Vince]

3. Reading closer in the preface, I saw a third edition was mentioned. IA has a couple that are undated (and therefore we can’t use them), but HathiTrust has one that’s dated 1908. Not only is it later (and we generally prefer as late an edition as possible), it also appears to have dropped the framing, so I would think we want to use this edition for Tales from the Fjeld.

[Harry Lund]

Great, I'll follow that 1908 edition of Tales from the Fjeld and drop the narrative framing.  I'll also retain the Appendix stories in Tales from the Norse for now. 

[Harry Lund]

Checking in with a question from my review.  In the Introduction and Conclusion to Popular Tales from the Norse, the author references individual stories, and on every occasion he refers to the story title and the story number in the book (see the excerpt below).  Should I include these roman numerals in the story titles and ToC, or should I remove his numerical references from the text?  The second volume that I'm including does not have story numbers. 

Thanks,

Harry

[Vince]

Those story numbers are from the first edition’s introduction, not the second edition whose scans you specified when you started.

On Apr 26, 2025, at 9:30 PM, Harry Lund <hlu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Checking in with a question from my review.  In the Introduction and Conclusion to Popular Tales from the Norse, the author references individual stories, and on every occasion he refers to the story title and the story number in the book (see the excerpt below).  Should I include these roman numerals in the story titles and ToC, or should I remove his numerical references from the text?  The second volume that I'm including does not have story numbers.  

[Harry Lund]

Yes, I've actually found that this printing of the second edition matches more closely with the PG text.  Am I OK to follow this one?

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001200282

[Vince]

Yes, but if you’re going to change scans, please let us know.

Given that even in this edition the numbers are only in the ToC, I think it’s OK to get rid of references to them. I think the references to the stories should be links, though; the point of the numbers here and the page numbers in the other edition is to point them to the story, which in an ebook is done with a link.

[Harry Lund]

OK, going forward I'll be using the scan I just shared for Tales from the Norse, and the scan you suggested earlier for Tales from the Fjeld:

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001200282

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001880820

I'll remove the story number references, and link the story titles instead - thanks!