This is a list of fables, fairy tales and folklore that are available online. I'm very much looking forward to reading Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales in Norwegian, since it is very close to Danish (written, that is. Spoken... don't get me started.)

Not all the links work, but the ones for Aesop's fables, the Blue, Red, Yellow, and Violet Fairy Books by Andrew Lang are all available in their entirety!

I'm sure several of the stories are Norse in origin, like The Story of Sigurd. And Soria Moria (which is the title of Amalie's 3rd grade reading book) and East of the Sun and West of the Moon, called Kvitebjørn Kong Valomon in Norwegian (the White Bear King Valomon) are a couple of the stories that Peter Christen Asbørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Møe collected and published in Norway in the 1840's.

I heard Pat Shaw, a lady who has translated some of these stories into English, read one of them at International Summer School here in Oslo last summer when I was taking a Norwegian class. Very cool.


oh, and one more thing fairy related...