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COPTRIGHT

T. II. SMART, 1905.

Digitized by the Internet Archive

in 2011 with funding from

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

http://www.archive.org/details/collectionofpopudase

A COLLECTION OF'

POPULAR TALES

THE NORSE AND NORTH GERMAN

GEORGE WEBBE DASENT, D.C.L.,

PORMEBLT EDITOR LONDON TIMES.

WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY ON THE ORIGIN AND DIFFUSION OF POPULAR TALES.

HON. RASMUS B. ANDERSON, LL.D.

EDITOR IN CHIEF.

J. W. BUEL, Ph.D.,

MANAGING EDITOR.

PUBLISHED BY THE

NORRCENA SOCIETY,

LONDON STOCKHOLM COPENHAGEN BERLIN NEW YORK 19 0.6

(Popular Tales from the Norse.)

Frontispiece—Inspiration of Norse Imagination.

Page

King Gram's Vision, "Speak!". 17

The Twelve White Peacocks 163

In the Brave Days of Giants and Dragons .293