Translation Into English
The tales were first translated into English by Sir George Webbe Dasent. His first version of the collection was called Popular Tales from the Norse (1859). In later editions at least thirteen more tales were included. But some tales that were added to Asbjørnsen and Moe's last edition, have not been translated by Dasent.
Asbjørnsen and Moe evidently approved of Dasent's translations: "In France and England collections have appeared in which our tales have not only been correctly and faultlessly translated, but even rendered with exemplary truth and care nay, with thorough mastery. The English translation, by George Webbe Dasent, is the best and happiest rendering of our tales that has appeared."
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