Category: Norway

Once on a time, in the days when our Lord and St Peter used to wander on earth, they came to a smith’s house. He had made a bargain with the Devil, that the...

Once on a time there was a lad who went out to woo him a wife. Amongst other places, he came to a farm-house, where the household were little better than beggars; but when...

(In this tale the notes of the Cock and Hen must be imitated.) Hen—You promise me shoes year after year, year after year, and yet I get no shoes! Cock—You shall have them, never...

Once on a time there was a man who had a meadow, which lay high up on the hill-side, and in the meadow was a barn, which he had built to keep his hay...