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A Tale of Two Tales Before Northern Fairy Tales was snatched away from me at The Twin Cities Antiquarian book fair, I had time to notice something interesting. The title page said, “Translated from P.Chr. Asbjørsen’s Norwegian Fairy Tales and H.C. Andersen’s Danish Fairy Tales.” I find this fascinating because it shows that already in 1890 there was confusion about the [...]

“Fairytales are more than true, not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ~ G.K. Chesterton

Lise Lunge-Larsen — Troll expert, Dragonslayer