Bookish Abode

Folktale Title:  "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" Collection:  Norske Folkeeventyr  (English:  Norwegian Folktales ) Taken From: Children's Book Adapter: J oan Stimson Collector:  Peter Christen Asbjørnsen & Jørgen Moe Origin: Norwegian In the early 19th century (around the time of Napoleonic War), a German philologist named Jacob Grimm and his younger brother Wilhelm Grimm (both are referred together as The Grimm Brothers), set out to publish a string of german fairy tales, many of which are far from alien to us today. If you love "The Snow White", "Hansel and Gretel", "Rapunzel", and "Rumpelstiltskin", definitely no doubt your imagination have been entranced by no other than the Grimm Brothers. Several decades later, two Norwegians Peter Asbjørnsen and his friend Jørgen Moe, were inspired by The Grimm Brothers and sought to emulate their cultural endeavor. They collected their own cultural folktales and published them...