Unexpected journey. #grickledoodle #fairytales #gingerbreadman #fox #cartoon #friendship #art #drawing #funny

The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe. The most comprehensive edition ever. The whole collection appears for the first time in English.

Paperback editions, or .pdf files for less than half the price. Details here: https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/the-complete-norwegian-folktales-and-legends-of-asbjornsen-moe

#norwegianfolktales #norwegianlegends #folklore #folklorethursday #folktales @norwegianfolktales @folklore #fairytales @folklorethursday #bookstodon

I have uploaded .pdf copies of both editions of The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe to ko-fi, where they are now available for purchase at less-than-half the cost of the Amazon paperback books.

Details and links on my Website here:

https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/the-complete-norwegian-folktales-and-legends-of-asbjornsen-moe

I think you should choose the annotated edition; here’s what you get:

1. Three chunky volumes (815 pages, 617 pages, and 665 pages).

2. Original prefaces from eight editions.

3. Jørgen Moe’s substantial introduction to the folktales, in which he discusses the origins of folk narratives, and how the Norwegian material exemplifies his ideas.

4. All 122 folktales Asbjørnsen & Moe published during their careers.

5. 28 hulder tales and folk legends, a genre Asbjørnsen defined, in which he embeds the legends of the hidden folk.

6. Approximately 350 illustrations by some of the most accomplished artists Norway has known, including Hans Gude, Erik Werenskiold and Theodor Kittelsen.

7. Asbjørnsen & Moe’s notes on the folktales, which detail the variant(s) the collectors used to compose each folktale, sketch out other variants they collected, and compare the Norwegian folktales with similar traditions from other regions.

8. Newly-researched editor’s notes, which identify the collector responsible for the composition of each text, give collection data, including tale type, geographical origin, collector, informant, and date of collection, sketch biographical details of informants, where known, give previous publication and translation details, trace historical and literary sources, and draw attention to points of particular interest.

9. Editor’s prefaces to each volume, which trace the publication history of the original volumes represented, as well as previous translations.

10. Comprehensive – perhaps even exhaustive – bibliographies to each volume.

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Scary Tales. #grickledoodle #horror #fairytales #redridinghood #wolf #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Ilmarinen the Smith Goes Courting

Ilmarinen the Blacksmith never grew tired of hammering. One day, as he was putting some iron in the forge, a maiden came to his smithy. She stood upon the threshold and called out to the Blacksmith: “If you knew what I have to tell you, Ilmarinen the Blacksmith, you’d not put that iron in your forge.”

Read the whole #folktale, which is inspired by #Kalevala, on this #KalevalaDay.

https://norwegianfolktales.net/folklore/ilmarinen-the-smith-goes-courting

#folktales #legends #folklore #nordic #folklorethursday @folklore #fairytales @folklorethursday

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#fairytales-ZARPAtricolor (3)

Time for change. #grickledoodle #troll #fairytales #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Here’s a great free online event coming up on 24/25 Feb, 1pm - 4pm UK time: Disability and Fairy Tales: Keeping the magic, confronting the stigma
#bookstodon #Disability #disabled #FairyTales #folklore #publishing @bookstodon
https://www.disabledtales.co.uk/programme.html

La Caperucita Roja tiene muchas versiones: con cazador, sin él, con la abuela en el reloj, en la barriga del lobo, etc. Es un cuento más antiguo que el propio Perrault. #cuentosdehadas #fairytales #literatura #literature

https://resolviendolaincognita.blogspot.com/2022/08/caperucita-roja-original.html

Here is the reason I refuse to have a side hustle.

Hustle (verb)
1. push roughly; jostle.
2. obtain illicitly or by forceful action.
3. engage in prostitution.

Hustle (noun)
1. a state of great activity.
2. a fraud or swindle.

(Definitions from Oxford dictionaries.)

In fact, I appear to have turned my back on the idea of exhausting myself by producing a constant stream of promotional material, and posting it to every online platform under the sun, disregarding how much money my content allows the most anti-social people on earth to make off my back, in the scant hopes of a sale. It would be a foolish waste of my time, attention, and energy that is better spent translating and writing more books.

The books are out there, but I am not going to try to manipulate people into buying them. That said, if you want to buy books full of amusing, silly, dark, strange Norwegian folklore, lovingly translated into English, please take a look at my stuff: https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/. If you don't even take a look, that's OK, too.

Yes, my books are available on Amazon, making one of the chief arseholes of the world money, but at least Amazon’s POD outfit is an honest business transaction: they offer a service unavailable elsewhere, and I purchase that service. (Other aspects of Amazon meet the definition of hustle above.)

#norwegianfolktales #norwegianlegends #folklore #folklorethursday #folktales @norwegianfolktales @folklore #fairytales @folklorethursday #bookstodon #antiCapitalism

I hope your Sunday is as good as it may be.

A reasoned look at the poor 'science' that is confidently used to push nonsense.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jan/29/all-in-the-mind-the-surprising-truth-about-brain-rot

The “study” that spearheaded this cascade of concern in 2005, and is still quoted today, claimed that using email lowered IQ more than cannabis. But Shane O’Mara, prof of experimental brain research at Trinity College, smelled a rat when he couldn’t find the original paper. It turns out there never was one.

This year, shall I put together an illustrated electronic (.epub/ .pdf) Christmas annual of Norwegian folktales and legends that are unknown in English? (I need to get planning already.)

#norwegian #folktales #legends #folklore #scandinavian #trolls #folklorethursday #Christmas2025 @norwegianfolktales @folklore #fairytales @folklorethursday #bookstodon

The ebook of World Weaver Press's anthology "Trenchcoats, Towers & Trolls”, cyberpunk-themed fairy tales, is down to $2.99 (from its usual $3.99) at most ebook stores today.

This is a fun one. It contains (among others) my short story "In the Belly of the Whale", which is a personal favorite.

#FairyTales #ebooks #cyberpunk #SciFi #ScienceFiction

https://books2read.com/u/bzky1z

Call for papers
Sea changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, & enchanted hybrids of ocean & river
Open Graves, Open Minds Conference 2025
5–6 Sep 2025, British Library, London, & online

Deadline for abstracts for papers/panel proposals: 7 Feb 2025

@litstudies

https://www.opengravesopenminds.com/cfp-conferences/cfp-ogom-conference-2024-sea-changes/

@scottish #literature #conference #folklore #fairytales #mermaid #selkie #CallforPapers