East of the sun and west of the moon : old tales from the North (1922)
Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen, 1812-1885, Moe, Jørgen Engebretsen, 1813-1882, Dasent, George Webbe, Sir, 1817-1896, Nielsen, Kay Rasmus, 1886-1957 · New York : G.H. Doran · leaf 114
LAND INCE on a time there was a fisherman - who livedclose by a palace, and fished for the Kingstable. One day when he was out fishing hejust caught nothing. Do what he would—however hetried with bait and angle—there was never a sprat on hishook. But when the day was far spent a head bobbedup out… … Sk S& S^ SSk S^ SXk SXk S!^ SJ^ S6k Stk that, as was like enough, he caught plenty of fish of allkinds. But when he got home at night and told hisstory, how he had got all that fish, his wife fell a-weepingand moaning, and was beside herself for the promisewhich her husband had made, for she…
Fairy tales · Folklore -- Norway
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