دانلود کتاب Icelandic Fairy and Folktales

Translated by Jack Turbes.

Originally published as: "Isländische Märchen und Volkssagen von Åge Avenstrup und Elisabeth Treitel" in 1919 by Axel Juncker Verlag, Berlin, Germany.

These Icelandic stories, originally published as "Isländische Märchen und Volkssagen" in German, are available from various sources including the Internet, but to the best of my knowledge not as a single body in English. My hope in translating these works is to provide the interested reader of English with the means to enjoy these tales, which might otherwise go unnoticed. It would be inappropriate to overlook the extensive collection of Icelandic tales and legends in Jacqueline Simpson’s English compilation, "Icelandic Folk Tales and Legends” (California Press, 1972 and The History Press, 2004) in which a number of these stories are also contained.

These folktales and legends from Iceland range from the 14th to the 17th century. They originate from a number of sources, but primarily from the diligent work of Árni Magnússon in the 17th and Jón Árnason of the 19th centuries, both Icelandic scholars, librarians, collectors and compilers of itinerant manuscripts.

These unique and fascinating stories shine a light on Iceland's late medieval rural legends and beliefs in such things as ghosts, trolls, witches, the lindworm - Iceland's version of the Loch Ness monster - and the hidden people, or Huldrefolk, that are still given deference and respect even today.

Where practicable, this second revision now includes a number of e-links to Google street or satellite views of the locales as they are today. Please note that most locales are, as they were then, private residences and are not open to the public. Most have been rebuilt elsewhere on the same location and are not the places they once were.