The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country: The Complete Set

This two-volume set was originally printed in 1896 and has prose versions of poems and folklore, notes on history and translation, and added art based on these historic stories. It had modernized and Americanized spellings and has been formatted for the digital medium. This collection contains these sections: The Hero of Estonia; Kalevipoeg; Esthonian Folk-Tales; Tales Illustrative of the “Kalevipoeg”; Orphan and Foundling Stories; Cosmopolitan Stories; Familiar Stories of Northern Europe; Stories of the Gods, and Spirits of the Elements; Heath Legends; Lake Legends; Stories of the Devil and of Black Magic; Hidden Treasures; Oriental Tales; Church Stories; Unnatural Brothers; Plague Legends; Beast Stories; Esthonian Ballads; and Bibliography. This book contains many tales, some of which are: The Marriages of Salme and Linda; The Death of Kalev; The Kalevide and the Finnish Sorcerer; The Heroes and the Water-Demon; The Kalevide’s First Journey to Hades; The Palace of Sarvik; The Last Feast of the Heroes; Armageddon; The Milky Way; The Grateful Prince; Slyboots; The Gold-Spinners; The Wood of Tontla; The Orphan Boy and the Hell-hounds; The Egg-born Princess; The Royal Herd-boy; Tiidu the Flute-player; The Lucky Egg; Bluebeard; Cinderella; The Dwarf’s Christening; The Gifted Brothers; The Man in the Moon; Videvik, Koit, Andämarik (Twilight, Dawn, and Evening Twilight); The Maiden at the Vaskjala Bridge; The Woman in the Moon; Polyphemus; Red Riding-Hood; Snow White, The Glass Mountain, and the Despised Youngest Son; The Witch-Bride; The Mermaid; How the Sea Became Salt; The Two Brothers and the Frost; The Soldier and the Devil; The Song-God’s Departure; Jutta; The Four Gifts of the Water-Sprite; The Spirits of the Northern Lights; The Spirit of the Whirlwind; The Will o’ the Wisps; The Foundling; Lake Peipus; The Lake At Euseküll; Emmu Lake and Virts Lake; The Son of the Thunder-god; The Moon-painter; The Wooden Man and the Birch-bark Maid; The Gallows-dwarfs; The Treasure at Kertell; The Church at Pühalepp; The Man with the Bast Shoes. About the author: William Forsell Kirby (1844-1912) was an English entomologist and folklorist. He also wrote a translation of the Kalevala in “Kalevala: The Land of Heroes” (1907). His translations of Finland's national epic were a major influence on the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien.