The Birch and the Star, and Other Storie

The Birch and the Star, and Other Stories collects tales by Jørgen Moe (1813-1882), the Norwegian folklorist, poet, and Lutheran bishop who with his collaborator Peter Christen Asbjørnsen produced the standard collection of Norwegian folk tales, Norske Folkeeventyr, that did for Norway what the Brothers Grimm had done for German-speaking lands. Moe travelled the Norwegian countryside in the 1840s collecting tales from peasant informants and editing them in a Norwegian prose that helped shape the modern literary language. He was later appointed Bishop of Christianssand. This collection of tales for children is drawn from the Asbjørnsen and Moe corpus and gathers some of the best-loved Norwegian folk stories in an English-language presentation for young readers, including the title story of The Birch and the Star. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.