(Tr. by Tiina Nunnally) In this book, first published as Troldskab in 1892, Kittelsen spins tales of wonder around creatures rumored to haunt the fields, forests, and waterfalls of Norway. First and foremost are the trolls, hapless, horrible, or just plain silly, working their spells and making their mischief to the terror and delight of the presumably human reader. Tailoring his whimsical artistic style to each tale, Kittelsen’s stories, in Tiina Nunnally’s nimble translation, reveal a Nordic world of wonder, myth, and magic as real as the imagination allows. Theodor Kittelsen (1857–1914) was one of Norway’s most popular artists and is best known for his paintings and illustrations from Norwegian folklore. Tiina Nunnally is the award-winning translator of many Scandinavian books, including, most recently, The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe and Sigrid Undset’s Olav Audunssøn tetralogy, all published by the University of Minnesota Press. 96 pages. Hardcover. 8 in H | 9 in W
