The Swedish Fairy Book - Unknown

	CHAPTER	PAGE
[I]	Knös	1
[II]	Lasse, My Thrall!	11
[III]	Finn, the Giant, and the Minster of Lund	32
[IV]	The Skalunda Giant	35
[V]	Yuletide Specters	37
[VI]	Silverwhite and Lillwacker	40
[VII]	Stompe Pilt	57
[VIII]	The Girl and the Snake	60
[IX]	Faithful and Unfaithful	62
[X]	Starkad and Bale	74
[XI]	The Werewolf	76
[XII]	First Born, First Wed	93
[XIII]	The Lame Dog	112
[XIV]	The Mount of the Golden Queen	124
[XV]	Old Hopgiant	129
[XVI]	The Princess and the Glass Mountain	132
[XVII]	Queen Crane	150
[XVIII]	Tales of the Trolls	159
[XIX]	Charcoal Nils and the Troll-Woman	162
[XX]	The Three Dogs	167
[XXI]	The Poor Devil	187
[XXII]	How Smaland and Schonen Came To Be	188
[XXIII]	The Evil One and Kitta Grau	190
[XXIV]	The Lady of Pintorp	194
[XXV]	The Specter in Fjelkinge	199
[XXVI]	The Rooster, the Hand-Mill and the Swarm of Hornets	202
[XXVII]	Torre Jeppe	207
[XXVIII]	The Man Who Died on Holy Innocents' Day	210

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

["No sooner had he spoken the words than he was lying in the most magnificent room he had ever seen"]	Frontispiece
	FACING PAGE
["Then Silverwhite drew his sword with a great sweep, and rushed upon the sea-troll"]	44
["The pike rose to the surface with the golden keys in his mouth"]	70
["So heartfelt was her happiness that she forgot everything else in the world"]	84
["A shrine adorned with gold and precious stones appeared"]	110
["The lion turned into a handsome young prince"]	122
["The rich man had to go along hanging to him like a hawser"]	130
["He saw a girl sitting in the mountain hall, weaving a web of gold"]	178

THE SWEDISH FAIRY BOOK

I

KNÖS

Once upon a time there was a poor widow, who found an egg under a pile of brush as she was gathering kindlings in the forest. She took it and placed it under a goose, and when the goose had hatched it, a little boy slipped out of the shell. The widow had him baptized Knös, and such a lad was a rarity; for when no more than five years old he was grown, and taller than the tallest man. And he ate in proportion, for he would swallow a whole batch of bread at a single sitting, and at last the poor widow had to go to the commissioners for the relief of the poor in order to get food for him. But the town authorities said she must apprentice the boy at a trade, for he was big enough and strong enough to earn his own keep.