Classic Scandinavian Folk Tales
- The Three Billy Goats Gruff
- A classic example of cunning, talking, and human-like animals vs. a not-so-smart troll.
- Prince Lindworm
- Another story of a human outwitting a creature
- The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body
- A great example of a hero rescuing a princess after she is kidnapped by an evil creature.
- The Seven Foals
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“Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have “really happened,” or to have some exceptional significance in explaining certain features of life, such as ritual. Again, whereas folk tales simply interchange motifs and develop variants, myths show an odd tendency to stick together and build up bigger structures. We have creation myths, fall and flood myths, metamorphose and dying-god myths.”
—Northrop Frye (1912–1991)
“There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we “can’t bear to throw away.””
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“Some folk want their luck buttered.”
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“Among the Indians he had fought;
And with him many tales he brought
Of pleasure and of fear;
Such tales as told to any Maid
By such a Youth, in the green shade,
Were perilous to hear.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)