Folk-Lore and Legends: Scandinavian: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Folk-Lore and Legends: Scandinavian, credited to Charles John Tibbits, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Folk-Lore and Legends: Scandinavian by Charles John Tibbits. Read in English by Sonia; Curt Troutwine; Tabea; Brandon Weston; Sarah Jump; deongines; Caroline Lilyard; Claudia Wagner; Liana Leite Thanks to Thiele, to Hylten-Cavallius and Stephens, and to Asbjörnsen and Moe, Scandinavian Folklore is well to the front. Its treasures are many, and of much value. One may be almost sorry to find among them the originals of many of our English tales. Are we indebted to the folk of other nations for all our folk-tales? It would almost seem so. I have introduced into the present volume only one or two stories from the Prose Edda. Space would not allow me to give so much of the Edda as I could have wished. In selecting and translating the matter for this volume, I have endeavoured to make the book such as would afford its readers a fair general view of the main features of the Folklore of the North. - Summary by Charles John Tibbits

Recording facts

• Recording title: Folk-Lore and Legends: Scandinavian
• Author credits: Charles John Tibbits
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 5:05:13

Catalogue topics

• English
• fairy tales
• Legends
• folklore
• scandinavian
• cultural

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 00 - PREFATORY NOTE — 1:22
2. 01 - THE WONDERFUL PLOUGH — 8:01
3. 02 - HOW A LAD STOLE THE GIANT'S TREASURE — 14:18
4. 03 - TALES OF CATS — 2:20
5. 04 - THE MAGICIAN'S DAUGHTER — 12:43
6. 05 - THE HILL-MAN INVITED TO THE CHRISTENING — 5:02
7. 06 - THE MEAL OF FROTHI — 2:59
8. 07 - THE LOST BELL — 9:52
9. 08 - MAIDEN SWANWHITE AND MAIDEN FOXTAIL — 14:34
10. 09 - TALES OF TREASURE — 5:52
11. 10 - HOLGER DANSKE — 3:25
12. 11 - TALES FROM THE PROSE EDDA — 8:42
13. 12 - THE STRANGE BUILDER — 4:05
14. 13 - THOR'S JOURNEY TO THE LAND OF GIANTS and HOW THOR WENT A-FISHING — 23:06
15. 14 - THE DEATH OF BALDUR — 8:16
16. 15 - THE PUNISHMENT OF LOKI — 3:54
17. 16 - ORIGIN OF TIIS LAKE — 2:42
18. 17 - THERE ARE SUCH WOMEN — 9:39
19. 18 - TALES OF THE NISSES — 8:51
20. 19 - THE DWARFS' BANQUET — 25:53
21. 20 - THE ICELANDIC SORCERESSES — 10:12
22. 21 - THE THREE DOGS — 29:11
23. 22 - THE LEGEND OF THORGUNNA — 15:42
24. 23 - THE LITTLE GLASS SHOE — 7:46

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