Popular Tales from Norse Mythology vs Scandinavian folk-lore: Which Should You Read?

Popular Tales from Norse Mythology George Webbe Dasent · 2001 ★★★★☆ 3.7 352 pages · ≈ 6 h 31 m · Moderate

Full of giants, trolls, heroes, and beautiful princesses, these 42 folktales include such favorites as "Temptations," "The Magician's Pupil," "Legend of Tannhäuser," "The Outlaw," "The Widow's Son," and "The Goatherd."

Scandinavian folk-lore William A. Craigie · 1896 554 pages · ≈ 10 h 16 m · Challenging

IN this brief outline of an extensive subject I have endeavoured to explain clearly not only what the Icelandic sagas are, but how it happened that they arose in a place so remote from the rest of Europe...The special…