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Project Runeberg has published the following works by this author:

• Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Moe, Carl Larsson, Folksagor Swedish
• Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Fornuftigt Madstel : en tidsmæssig Koge- og Husholdningsbog Norwegian
• Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Hjemmet og Vandringen : en Aarbog for 1847 Norwegian
• Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Manden som skulde stelle hjemme Danish
• Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norge fremstillet i tegninger Norwegian
• Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Moe, Norska Folksagor och Huldre-sägner Swedish
• Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Moe, Norske Folkeeventyr Norwegian
• Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Moe, Satukirja lapsille : norjalaisia kansansatuja Finnish
• Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Tidsenlig matlagning : kok- och hushållsbok Swedish

Tilsammen med Jørgen Moe begynte Peter Christen Asbjørnsen i 1837 å samle folkeeventyr. Disse Norske Folkeeventyr utgavs 1841-1844 i to bind.

1845-1847 utgav Asbjørnsen Norske Huldreeventyr og Folkesagn.

Links

• Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, norske Wikipedia (bokmål)
• Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, nynorske Wikipedia
• Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, danske Wikipedia
• Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, svenska Wikipedia
• Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Wikipedia sámegillii
• Peter Asbjørnsen, eesti Wikipedia
• Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, deutsche Wikipedia
• Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, English Wikipedia
• Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, polski Wikipedia
• Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Store norske leksikon
• Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norsk biografisk leksikon
• Asbjørnsen og Moe, Bokselskap.no
• Peter Chr. Asbjørnsen, Bokselskap.no
• Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, norske Wikisource
• Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, svenska Wikisource
• Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, English Wikisource
• Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, deutsche Wikisource
• Asbjørnsen, Projekt Gutenberg-DE
• Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, OpenLibrary.org
• Peter Christian Asbjørnsen, Nordiske Digtere i vort Aarhundrede : en skandinavisk Anthologi
• Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen, Norsk Forfatter-Lexikon 1814-1880

English Translations

There is a great interest from our international audience that Project Runeberg provide an electronic edition of the English translation of the Norwegian fairy tales by Asbjørnsen and Moe. For this, we must still respect the copyright that might belong to the translator(s). Translations are covered by copyright during the lifetime of the translator and then for 70 more years (life + 70). Several translations exist and we will initially have to choose one of them. Here is the list:

Popular Tales from the Norse, 1859, by George Webbe Dasent (translated with an introductory essay by Dasent, G. W.). Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas.

Round the yule log. Norwegian folk and fairy tales, translated by H. L. Brækstad, with an introduction by Edmund W. Gosse. London, 1881, XX + 316 pp., illustrated

Norwegian fairy tales, transl. by Abel Heywood ill. by Bessie du Val, London, 1895, 295 pp.

The Norwegian fairytales. A short summary, by Reidar Th. Christiansen, Helsinki, 1922, 44 pp.

Christmas fireside stories, or Round the yule log. Norwegian folk and fairy tales, translated by H. L. Brækstad, with an introduction by Edmund W. Gosse. London, 1923, XX + 316 pp., illustrated

cf. 1881

Christmas fireside stories, Norwegian folk & fairy tales, with an introduction by Edmund W. Gosse, London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co, 1923, XII + 316 pp., illustrated

Norwegian fairy tales, transl. by Helen and John Gade. New York, 1924, XIV + 250 pp., illustrated.

Norwegian fairy tales, selected and trans by Brenda and Reidar Romskaug, Ill. by Ivar Pettersen, London, University of London, c. 1961, 128 pp.

Norwegian folk tales, illustrated by Erik Werenskjold, Theodor Kittelsen, translated by Pat Shaw Iversen, Carl Norman, London, Allen and Unwin, 1963, 188 pp. (reprinted, New York, Pantheon Books, 1982 and 1988, ISBN 0-394-71054-1) (also published by Dreyer, Oslo, 1960, 1987, ISBN 82-09-10403-9, in 2 vol., 1990, in 2 vol. c. 1992, only vol. 1 c. 1994, ISBN 82-504-2159-0)

A time for trolls. Fairy tales from Norway, selected and translated with introduction by Joan Roll-Hansen, illustrations by Kai Øvre, 3rd ed., Oslo, Tanum, 1964. 69 pp.

Norwegian fairy tales, a pop-up book with four fairy tales, retold by Sarah Hewetson, Stavanger, Sandviks bokforl., (1994?) (8 pp.?), Illustrated by François Ruyer.

Norwegian fairytales, audio recording, English version read by Earl Hyman, Sandvika, ABC-forl., 1995, 1 audio cassette (ISBN 82-7728-007-6) or 1 CD (ISBN 82-7728-006-8), contains East of the sun and west of the moon, The hens trips in the mountains so blue, The three Bushey Billy Goats, Soria Moria Castle.

Selected translations into English

From Mette Rudvin, who has written a PhD thesis on the two authors.

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. 1851. »The Master Thief. By Per Chr. Asbjørnsen«. Blackwood’s Magazine. November 1851.

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1859. Popular Tales from the Norse. By George Webbe Dasent (translated with an introductory essay by Dasent, G. W.). Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas.

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1859. Popular Tales from the Norse. By George Webbe Dasent (translated with an introductory essay by Dasent, G. W.). New York: D. Appleton & Company.

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1859 . Popular Tales from the Norse. By George Webbe Dasent (Second enlarged edition; translated with an introductory essay by Dasent, G. W.). Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas.

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1859. Popular Tales from the Norse. By George Webbe Dasent (Second edition; translated with an introductory essay by Dasent, G. W.). London: Hamilton.

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1862. A Selection from the Norse Tales for the Use of Children. By G. W. Dasent (translated by Dasent, G. W.) Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas.

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1862. Selection from Norse Tales for Children. By George Webbe Dasent (translated by Dasent, G. W.). New edition. London: Hamilton.

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1865. Select Popular Tales from the Norse (translated by Dasent, G. W.). New edition. Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas.

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1874. Tales from the Fjeld. A second series of popular tales. from the Norse of P. Chr. Asbjørnsen. By G. W Dasent. author of »Tales from the Norse. etc.« (translated by Dasent, G. W.) London: Chapman & Hall.

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1877. Popular Tales from the Norse by George Webbe Dasent (translated with an introductory essay by Dasent, G. W.). Third edition. Hamilton. London

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1879. Northern Fairy Tales. Translated from P. Chr. Asbjørnsen’s Norwegian Fairy Tales and H. C. Andersen’s Danish Fairy Tales by H. L. Brækstad (translated by Brækstad, H. L.) London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington.

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1879. Norwegian Fairy Tales by P. Chr. Asbjørnsen (translated by Brækstad, H. L.) London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington.

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1881. Christmas Fireside Stories. or Round the Yule Log. Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales. By P. Chr. Asbjørnsen (translated by Brækstad, H. L. with an introduction by Gosse, E. W.). London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington.

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1882. Norwegian Fairy Tales by P. Chr. Asbjørnsen (translated by Brækstad, H. L.). London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington.

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1883. Folk and Fairy Tales. By P. Chr. Asbjørnsen (translated by Brækstad, H. L. with an introduction by Gosse, E. W.) New York: A. C. Armstrong

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1885. A Cock for once Outwits Mikkel. By P. Chr. Asbjørnsen. I: »Readings from the Dane«. Fulford, J. V. Ed. London: [no publisher given].

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1886. Round the Yule Log. Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales. By P. Chr. Asbjørnsen (translated by Brækstad, H. L. with an introduction by Gosse, E. W.) London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington.

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1888. Popular Tales from the Norse by Sir George Webbe Dasent (translated with an introductory essay by Dasent, G. W.). Third edition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press/ New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1891. Popular Tales from the Norse by Sir George Webbe Dasent (translated with an introductory essay by Dasent, G. W. Second enlarged edition. Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas.

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1895. Norwegian Fairy Tales. Translated by Abel Heywood from the collection of P. Chr. Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe (translated by Heywood, A.). London: George Routledge & Sons.

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1896. Tales from the Fjeld. A series of Popular Tales from the Norse of P. Chr. Asbjørnsen by Sir George Webbe Dasent (translated by Dasent, G. W.; new edition). New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons.

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1897. Fairy Tales from the Far North by P. Chr. Asbjørnsen (translated by Brækstad, H. L.). London: David Nutt.

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1899. Fairy Tales from the Far North. By P. Chr. Asbjørnsen (translated by Brækstad, H. L.). New York: A. L. Burt Company Publishers.

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1903. Popular Tales from the Norse of by Sir George Webbe Dasent (translated with an introductory essay by Dasent, G. W.; new edition). Edinburgh: David Douglas.

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1906. Tales for Little People. [No. 1] Princess of glass hill, and other fairy stories (translated by Dasent, G. W.; »Lady Kathleen« Ed.) London: [no publisher given].

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1906. Tales for Little People. [No. 2] Shortshanks, The giant killer, and other fairy stories (translated by Dasent, G. W.; »Lady Kathleen« Ed.) London: [no publisher given].

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1906. Tales for Little People. [No. 3] The blue belt, and more fairy stories (translated by Dasent, G. W.; »Lady Kathleen« Ed.) London: [no publisher given].

Asbjørnsen. P. Chr. and Jørgen Moe. 1907. Popular Tales from the Norse by Sir George Webbe Dasent (translated with an introductory essay by Dasent, G. W.). New York: George Routledge & Sons.

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