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Informationen zum Autor Reimund Kvideland and Henning K. Sehmsdorf Klappentext All the World's Reward presents ninety-eight tales from Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Swedish-speaking Finland, and Iceland. Each area is represented by the complete recorded repertoire of a single storyteller. Such a focus helps place the stories in the context of the communities in which they were performed and also reveals how individual folk artists used the medium of oral literature to make statements about their lives and their world. Some preferred jocular stories and others wonder tales; some performed mostly for adults, others for children; some used storytelling to criticize society, and others spun wish fulfillment tales to find relief from a harsh reality. For the most part collected a century ago, the stories were gleaned from archives and printed sources; the Icelandic repertoire was collected on audiotape in the 1960s. Each repertoire was selected by a noted folklorist. Introductions to the storytellers and collectors and commentaries and references for the tales are provided. A general introduction, a comprehensive bibliography, and an index of the tales according to Aarne-Thompson's typology are also included. Period illustrations add charm to the stories. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface List of Contributors List of Abbreviations Part One | Olav Eivindsson Austad: Tales from Setesdal, Norway (1907-1926) Introduction: Norway's Last Great Storyteller 1. When the Bear Lost His Tail (at 2) 2. The Bear and the Fox Compete in Counting (at 7) 3. The Bear and the Fox Share a Field (at 9B) 4. The Firkin of Butter (at 15) 5. The Bear Kills Himself (at 21) 6. The House Mouse and the Woods Mouse (at 112) 7. The Ox, the Ram, and the Billy Goat (at 130 + 5) 8. The Frisky Gelding (at 153) 9. The Three Women and the Wolf (unclassified) 10. The Cuckoo (unclassified) 11. The Troll and the Three Sisters (at 311) 12. The Tale about the Wolf (at 425) 13. The Twelve Ravens (at 451) 14. Man-Daughter and Woman-Daughter (at 480) 15. The Goatherd Girl (at 501) 16. The Shining Apple Tree (at 510 AB) 17. Ashfart and the Cat (at 545B) 18. The Golden Apple (at 550) 19. The Mare That Dropped Money (at 563) 20. Thumb (I) (at 700) 21. Thumb (II) (at 700) 22. The Prince Who Wanted a Real Princess (at 704) 23. The Woman Who Got Three Wishes (at 750A) 24. The Girl Who Didn't Want Any Children (at 755) 25. Cheese-Dun (at 853) 26. The Merry Boy (at 921) 27. As Wind in Hot Sun (at 923A) 28. Ashfart Who Took a Job with the Troll (at 1052 + 1137) 29. The Cat in Dogre (at 1161) 30. Trond (at 1161) 31. The Crazy Wife (at 1384) 32. The Clumsy Girl (at 1453) 33. The Fortune-Teller (at 1535) 34. The Boy and the Parson (at 1535) 35. The Man Who Never Gave Lodging (at 1544) 36. Frick-Guss-Spass-Gass-Ber-Hu (unclassified) 37. The Bet (unclassified) 38. The Wretched Shoemaker (at 1640) 39. Pok, Slok, and Ashfart Go Stealing (at 1653B) 40. The Slow-Witted Son (at 1685 + 1696) 41. A Sermon (at 1824) 42. The Woman Who Got News from Home (at 1931) 43. The Goat Who Wouldn't Go Home (at 2015) Part Two | Ane Margrete Hansen: Tales from Jutland, Denmark (1889) Introduction: National Treasure and Local Culture 44. The Two Hunters (at 303 + 567) 45. Millerimaej and Annekendaej (at 313) 46. The Scabby Garden Boy (at 314 + 1880) 47. The Three Wishes of the Smith (at 330 A) 48. Solvborg Castle (at 400) 49. The Si...
