1890-1899
- Tale Summary There are 3 bears: baby, mama, and papa bear. While the bears are out and an old woman comes and eats all their porridge, sits in their chairs, and sleeps in all their beds. The bears come home and scare her off. Fairy
- Tale Summary An old man has three daughters. The eldest two are vain, and selfish, and do not help with the housework, the youngest (Helga) is the most beautiful and selfless and serves the whole family. When their fire goes out one night, the
- Tale Summary A king adopts a beautiful girl for his daughter. When she grows up, all three of his sons want her hand in marriage. He sets out a test to determine who will wed the girl, Isolde. Whoever brings back the most unusual thing from foreign
- Tale Summary Thorstein is a prince and is too kind. After his parents die he spends the entire kingdom鈥檚 budget on charity for people who don鈥檛 deserve it and everybody is miserable. He barters his kingdom away and leaves. On his journey, he
- Tale Summary There was once a beautiful princess that a young king sought to marry. He attempted to swoon her with extravagant gifts, but she refused to marry him. Graceful, the king鈥檚 handsome and kind ambassador, stated that he alone could
- Tale Summary A widowed king with a daughter named Flora remarries a widowed queen with her own daughter named Troutina. Flora is beautiful and amiable, while Troutina is ugly and mean. When both daughters are of age to be married, the queen
- Tale Summary A queen has a single daughter who is very beautiful and prideful. The princess, named All-Fair, refuses to marry any suitor as she is content being single. The queen seeks out the help of the Fairy of the Desert, but runs into two
- Tale Summary This tale is a twist on the one previously told, in which the character described is a victim caught between a city pr忙tor and thief, and now focuses on his own fast-thinking. The village church of Postema is served by the avaricious
- Tale Summary Tebaldo, Prince of Salermo, has a beautiful and wise wife who dies and instructs him not to marry someone whose finger does not fit her own ring. After sending home every woman who courted him, his own daughter, Doralice, finds the ring
- Tale Summary A handsome young robber named Cassandrino in the city of Romagna, Perugia, is so magnanimous in offering gifts that come of his thieving, that the city pr忙tor is reluctant to punish him. Taken with Cassandrino, the pr忙tor believes his