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EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON[9]
THE BLUE BELT[29]
PRINCE LINDWORM[53]
THE LASSIE AND HER GODMOTHER[65]
THE HUSBAND WHO WAS TO MIND THE HOUSE[75]
THE LAD WHO WENT TO THE NORTH WIND[79]
THE THREE PRINCESSES OF WHITELAND[85]
SORIA MORIA CASTLE[97]
THE GIANT WHO HAD NO HEART IN HIS BODY[117]
THE PRINCESS ON THE GLASS HILL[131]
THE WIDOW’S SON[149]
THE THREE BILLY GOATS GRUFF[167]
THE THREE PRINCESSES IN THE BLUE MOUNTAIN[171]
THE CAT ON THE DOVREFELL[200]
ONE’S OWN CHILDREN ARE ALWAYS PRETTIEST[203]

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EAST OF THE SUN AND
WEST OF THE MOON

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“Well, mind and hold tight by my shaggy coat, and then there’s nothing to fear,” said the Bear, so she rode a long, long way[ 9]
“Tell me the way, then,” she said, “and I’ll search you out”[ 16]
And then she lay on a little green patch in the midst of the gloomy thick wood[ 24]
The North Wind goes over the sea[ 32]
And flitted away as far as they could from the Castle that lay East of the Sun and West of the Moon[ 40]

THE BLUE BELT

The Lad in the Bear’s skin, and the King of Arabia’s daughter[ 48]

6PRINCE LINDWORM

She saw the Lindworm for the first time, as he came in and stood by her side[ 56]

THE LASSIE AND HER GODMOTHER

She could not help setting the door a little ajar, just to peep in, when—Pop! out flew the Moon[ 64]
Then he coaxed her down and took her home[ 72]
“Here are your children; now you shall have them again. I am the Virgin Mary”[ 80]
He too saw the image in the water; but he looked up at once, and became aware of the lovely Lassie who sate there up in the tree

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THE THREE PRINCESSES OF WHITELAND

“You’ll come to three Princesses, whom you will see standing in the earth up to their necks, with only their heads out”[ 88]
So the man gave him a pair of snow shoes[ 96]
The King went into the Castle, and at first his Queen didn’t know him, he was so wan and thin, through wandering so far and being so woeful[ 104]

7THE GIANT WHO HAD
NO HEART IN HIS BODY

The six brothers riding out to woo[ 112]
“On that island stands a church; in that church is a well; in that well swims a duck”[ 120]
He took a long, long farewell of the Princess, and when he got out of the Giant’s door, there stood the Wolf waiting for him[ 128]

THE WIDOW'S SON

When he had walked a day or so, a strange man met him. “Whither away?” asked the man[ 136]
But still the Horse begged him to look behind him[ 144]
And this time she whisked off the wig; and there lay the lad, so lovely, and white and red, just as the Princess had seen him in the morning sun[ 152]
The Lad in the Battle[ 160]

8THE THREE PRINCESSES
IN THE BLUE MOUNTAIN

Just as they bent down to take the rose a big dense snowdrift came and carried them away[ 168]
The Troll was quite willing, and before long he fell asleep and began snoring[ 176]
As soon as they tugged at the rope, the Captain and the Lieutenant pulled up the Princesses, the one after the other[ 184]
No sooner had he whistled than he heard a whizzing and a whirring from all quarters, and such a large flock of birds swept down that they blackened all the field in which they settled[ 192]

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EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON