Yule-tide stories : a collection of Scandinavian and North German popular tales and traditions, from the Swedish, Danish, and German

THE POPULAR TALES AND TRADITIONS, a translation of which is now offered to the Public, are not the fruits of modern imagination, but, as their several collectors and editors inform us, are genuine ancient productions, not a few of them traceable to very remote ages and to the far-distant lands of the East, and the greater number of a date not later than the fifteenth or sixteenth century....