Swedish Fairy Book
Author: first_name: Klara
last_name: Stroebe
Language: English
Year: 1921

These are 28 selected "Swedish" fairy tales, part of a larger collection in Swedish edited by Klara Stroebe and selected for translation into English by the translator Frederick Herman Martens as examples he felt appeared most colorful and entertaining for young readers and also most Swedish in their "flavor". Martens made no attempt to rewrite these tales in their translation, so the Swedish flavor appears to be retained. They were faithfully narrated in the simple, naive manner of their tradit