The Swedish Fairy Book: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Swedish Fairy Book, credited to Klara Stroebe, 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 The Swedish Fairy Book by Klara Stroebe. (Translated by Frederick Herman Martens.) Read in English by Hox. Klara Stroebe was a noted collector of Scandinavian folk and fairy tales in the 19th Century. Many of these were translated into English and published by Frederick Herman Martens. These are 28 selected "Swedish" fairy tales, part of Stroebe's larger collection in Swedish. Martens wrote that he selected these particular stories for translation into English because he felt they appeared most colorful and entertaining for young readers and also most Swedish in their "flavor". Martens made no attempt to rewrite these tales in their translation, so the Swedish flavor appears to be retained. They were faithfully narrated in the simple, naive manner of their traditional rendering. (Summary by Hox)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Swedish Fairy Book
• Author credits: Klara Stroebe
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 5:13:07

Catalogue topics

• traditional tales
• swedish fairy stories
• collected stories

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 00 - Preface — 2:02
2. 01 - Knoes — 11:16
3. 02 - Lasse, My Thrall! — 30:25
4. 03 - Finn, the Giant, and the Minster of Lund — 3:23
5. 04 - The Skalunda Giant — 2:57
6. 05 - Yuletide Specters — 4:34
7. 06 - Silverwhite and Lillwacker — 25:44
8. 07 - Stompe Pilt — 3:34
9. 08 - The Girl and the Snake — 3:46
10. 09 - Faithful and Unfaithful — 16:38
11. 10 - Starkad and Bale — 3:11
12. 11 - The Werewolf — 24:18
13. 12 - First Born, First Wed — 28:09
14. 13 - The Lame Dog — 18:56
15. 14 - The Mount of the Golden Queen — 7:52
16. 15 - Old Hopgiant — 4:21
17. 16 - The Princess and the Glass Mountain — 28:38
18. 17 - Queen Crane — 13:26
19. 18 - Tales of the Trolls — 4:30
20. 19 - Charcoal Nils and the Trollwoman — 7:40
21. 20 - The Three Dogs — 30:49
22. 21 - The Poor Devil — 1:55
23. 22 - How Smaland and Schonen Came to Be — 3:13
24. 23 - The Evil One and Kitta Grau — 6:14

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