Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team FOLK-LORE AND LEGENDS SCANDINAVIAN W. W. Gibbings 18 Bury St., London, W.C. 1890 PREFATORY NOTE. Thanks to Thiele, to Hylten-Cavallius and Stephens, and to Asbjoernsen and Moe, Scandinavian Folklore is well to the front. Its treasures are many, and of much value. One may be almost sorry to find among them the originals of many of our English tales. Are we indebted to the folk of other nations for all our folk-tales? It would almost seem so. I have introduced into the present volume only one or two stories from the Prose Edda. Space would not allow me to give so much of the Edda as I could have wished. In selecting and translating the matter for …
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