A huge study on fairy and fairy mythology from around the world. Chapters include: Persian Romance; The Peri-wife; Arabian Romance; Middle-age Romance; Fairy Land; Spenser's Faerie Queene; Eddas And Sagas; The Alfar; The Duergar; Loki And The Dwarf; Thorston And The Dwarf; The Dwarf Sword Tirfing; Scandinavia; Elves; Sir Olof In The Elve-dance; The Elf-woman And Sir Olof; The Young Swain And The Elves; Svend Faelling And The Elf-maid; The Elle-maids; Maid Vae; The Elle-maid Near Ebeltoft; Hans Puntleder; Dwarfs Or Trolls; Sir Thynne; Proud Margeret; The Troll Wife; The Altar-cup In Aagerup; Origin Of Tiis Lake; A Farmer Tricks A Troll; Skotte In The Fire; The Legend Of Bodedys; Kallundborg Church; The Hill Man Invited To The Christening; The Troll Turned Cat; Kirsten's Hill; The Troll-labourer; The Hill Smith; The Girl At The Troll Dance; The Changeling; The Tile-stove Jumping Over The Brook; Departure Of The Trolls From Vendsyssel; Svend Faelling; The Dwarf's Banquet; Nisses ; The Nis Removing ; The Penitent Nis; The Nis And The Boy; The Nis Stealing Corn; The Nis And The Mare; The Nis Riding; The Nisses In Vosborg; Necks, Mermen And Mermaids; The Power Of The Harp; Duke Magnus And The Mermaid; Northern Islands; Iceland; Feroes; Shetland; Gioga's Son; The Mermaid Wife; Orkneys; Isle Of Rugen; Adventures Of John Dietrich; The Little Glass Slipper; The Wonderful Plough; The Lost Bell; The Black Dwarfs Of Granitz, and many more.
Author(s): Thomas Keightley
Publisher: George Bell and Sons
Year: 1905
Language: English
Pages: 590