Popular Tales from the Norse: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Popular Tales from the Norse, credited to Sir George Webbe Dasent, 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 Popular Tales from the Norse, by Sir George Webbe Dasent. Read by thedingo, Varra Unreal, Tricia G, Andy Yu, Leni, Daniel W., Sirene Darktail, Brian von Dedenroth, Ted Nugent, David Federman, Parrot, Carol Stripling, Fionn Jameson, pattymarie, Linda Ferguson, Clarica, Didier, Sulwen, Celinda Mendoza, Selvin, Sharon Riskedahl, JohnNewman, Jessica Louise, Hollis Hanover, David Lawrence, George Yeager, Lars Rolander, Morgan Saletta, Deb Cornell, Roger Melin, Al Dano, webround, Ezwa, Kalynda, Lucy Perry and Scott Carpenter2009. The most careless reader can hardly fail to see that many of the Tales in this volume have the same groundwork as those with which he has been familiar from his earliest youth. They are Nursery Tales, in fact, of the days when there were tales in nurseries--old wives' fables, which have faded away before the light of gas and the power of steam. (Excerpt from Popular Tales from the Norse.) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Popular Tales from the Norse
• Author credits: Sir George Webbe Dasent
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 80
• Listed recording duration: 17:22:19

Catalogue topics

• Popular Tales from the Norse
• George W. Dasent
• fairytales
• tales

Opening tracks: first 24 of 80

1. 01 - Notice to the Second Edition — 3:59
2. 02 - Notice to the First Edition — 2:40
3. 03 - Introduction Part 1: Origin — 20:32
4. 04 - Introduction Part 2: Diffusion — 50:03
5. 05 - Introduction Part 3: Norse Mythology — 49:52
6. 06-1 - Introduction Part 4-1: Norse Popular Tales — 38:54
7. 06-2 - Introduction Part 4-2: Norse Popular Tales — 35:41
8. 07 - Introduction Part 5: Conclusion — 17:10
9. 08 - True and Untrue — 10:52
10. 09 - Why the Sea is Salt — 12:29
11. 10 - The Old Dame and Her Hen — 17:56
12. 11 - East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon — 29:09
13. 12 - Boots Who Ate a Match with the Troll — 4:52
14. 13 - Hacon Grizzlebeard — 15:48
15. 14 - Boots, Who Made the Princess Say, 'That's a Story' — 4:50
16. 15 - The Twelve Wild Ducks — 14:33
17. 16 - The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body — 16:12
18. 17 - The Fox as Herdsman — 3:09
19. 18 - The Mastermaid — 31:22
20. 19 - The Cat on the Dovrefell — 4:14
21. 20 - Princess on the Glass Hill — 19:40
22. 21 - The Cock and the Hen — 0:59
23. 22 - How One Went Out to Woo — 1:48
24. 23 - The Master-Smith — 19:59

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