The Christmas visitors
Subtitle: a Norwegian folktale
By: retold and illustrated by Jeanette Winter.
Contributors: Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen, 1812-1885.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1968
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Christmas -- Fiction.; Folklore -- Norway.
Description: Every Christmas Eve a wood cutter and his family have to prepare a feast for the trolls who come from a nearby mountain. Then one year a trapper and his white bear ask for shelter on the same holiday eve.
Notes: First published in 1852 in Norske folkeeventyr, compiled by P. C. Asbjørnsen and J. Moe.