presents
"There once
was a couple who had three sons and the youngest one, Halvor, would do nothing,
only sit by the fire and poke among the ashes, so that folks called him
'Askeladden,' the Ash Lad." Until one day Halvor, the Ash Lad, set out to
seek his fortune.
comes
to life as characters and setting are pulled from the trunk of an 1880s
Norwegian immigrant who relates the tale. This delightful re-telling of norsk
eventyr (Norwegian folk tales) blends stories collected by Asbjørnson and
Moe into a captivating adventure of trolls, a billy goat, a king, gold, and
even a Sami (Lapp) princess.
