Excerpt from Danish Fairy Tales There are, naturally, these stock features. But there is something rarer that stamps these tales with an originality that seems to individualize them. This quality, may, perhaps, be found in the tender ness and poetic atmosphere of the Green Knight; in the naivete of Peter Ox and the pessimistic moralizing of Good Deeds; in the humorous expres sion of the very human satisfaction of outwitting another, in The Treasure; as well as in the charm of The Pleiades, with its quaint naming, or rather, no-naming of the sons, and with its beautiful ending. One may even imagine here a happy linking of their fairyland wonders with those of our own day. For the ship that can go over land and sea, that can propel itself, - does it not suggest our modern wonder. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.