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LINKS related to background aspect of the Sigurd project

Sites on fairytales

Germanic history and culture

Teaching resources on fairytales

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sites on fairy tales

http://hca.gilead.org.il/
A complete list of Hans Christian Andersen’s 168 fairytales, with references.

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/
A complete list of the brothers Grimm’s 209 tales.

http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/folkeven/
List of Norwegian fairytales collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe. In Norwegian.

http://oaks.nvg.org/lg4ra2.html
Norwegian fairytales in English.

http://www.fln.vcu.edu/menu.html
19th-century German stories. In German and English.

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
An enormous resource bank of fairytales.

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/censor.html
An essay about censorship in fairytales.

http://mythologie.pagina.nl/
Overview of myths and legends in Dutch.

 

German fairy tales

www.datenautobahn.de/maerchen/homepage.htm
This is a summary of fairy tales from the authors following: Grimm, Bechstein, Andersen, Busch

www.internet-maerchen.de

www.mehrmaerchen.de/
This page offers a selection of fairy tales and gives some more links to this theme

www.maerchen.richtig.de/
Selection of classic fairy tales

www.maerchen.de/
Selection of stories, fairy tales and poems. Here you can also find a dictionary and some other useful links.

www.gutenberg2000.de/maerchen/
This offers a bibliography and some short information bout authors and their books.

gutenberg.spiegel.de/gellert/fbgellrt/fbgellrt.htm

www.gutenberg2000.de/fabeln/
This is he same, but contains fables.

www.textgalerie.de/novalis/fabeln/
Selection of fables from Novalis

www.katzenart.de/fabeln.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Germanic history and culture

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/tacitus1.html
The Roman Tacitus’ description of the Germanic people.

http://www.anglo-saxon.demon.co.uk/lyfja/ghp/germanic.html
A Germanic heritage page.

http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~cherryne/mythology.html
Excellent overview of Norse mythology.

http://legends.dm.net/sagas/northern.html
Norse and Germanic mythology.

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/mythlinks.html
A list of Germanic myths, legends and sagas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teaching resources on fairytales
  • http://faculty.acu.edu/~goebeld/maerchen/maermenu.htm
    Learning German through fairytales.
  • http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/hmll/blue/tale/fairy.html
    Creative writing activities for students.
  • http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/units/fairytales/home.html
    How to teach about fairytales to children.
  • http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr295.shtml
    Using fairytales to teach children ethics.

 

 

 

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