East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North

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Title
East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North
Creator
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen,
Jørgen Engebretsen Moe,
Sir George Webbe Dasent, translator
Kay Rasmus Nielsen, illustrator
Publisher
London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1914]
Description
The Moon, Father Forest, Great Fish of the Sea, and North Wind help a maiden rescue her true love from a troll princess in a faraway kingdom.
Provenance
Selected from the Norske folke-eventyr of Abjörnson and Moe; most stories in this book originally appeared in Sir G.W. Dasent's Popular tales from the Norse; cf. Preface, p. [1-2].
Imprint date from BM 7:716; cf. also NUC pre-1956, 23:206.