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Reidar Thoralf Christiansen (27 January 1886 – 22 July 1971) was a Norwegian folklorist, archivist of the Norwegian Folklore Collection (NFS) and professor...

politician Rasmus Christiansen (disambiguation), multiple people Reggie Christiansen (born 1975), American baseball coach Reidar Thoralf Christiansen (1886–1971)...

Internet Sacred Text Archives: Grimoires Digitized Grimoires Reidar Thoralf Christiansen; Pat Shaw Iversen (1964). Folktales of Norway. University of...

rendered "The Hen is Tripping in the Mountain", as given in Reidar Thoralf Christiansen's translation. The tale is categorized as Aarne-Thompson type...

forntiden (in Swedish). Stockholm: Zacharias Hæggström. p. 178. Reidar Thoralf Christiansen, The Migratory Legends: A Proposed List of Types with a Systematic...

work of Svend Grundtvig. In this light, according to folklorist Reidar Thoralf Christiansen, of the 31 Danish versions known, they are "curiously uniform":...

parallels found elsewhere, according to the scheme devised by Reidar Thoralf Christiansen. This may not necessarily involve the mermaid's spaeing, and...

also known as goanisse (Godnisse, Goenisse≈the good Nisse). Reidar Thoralf Christiansen remarked that the "belief in the nisse is confined to the south...

the wedding with the new bride. Moreover, Norwegian folklorist Reidar Thoralf Christiansen remarked that this ending motif was "very common". However, German...

church. 'The Mermaid Wife' is a migratory legend described by Reidar Thoralf Christiansen, which involves a man stealing a magical item from a mermaid...

the sea-ogress margýgr in Old Norse texts, in the opinion of Reidar Thoralf Christiansen. Kuno Meyer illustrated the similarity to the Odyssey using a...

"The Devil's Daughter"). In that regard, Norwegian folklorist Reidar Thoralf Christiansen suggested that the presence of the Swan maiden character in tale...

circulation (as of 1956) was mounted by Seán Ó Súilleabháin and Reidar Thoralf Christiansen, culminating in The Types of the Irish Folktale (1963), a compilation...

parish, who was a storyteller for Curtin. Seán Ó Súilleabháin and Reidar Thoralf Christiansen edd. Kittredge uses "the one story" once Kittredge (1903), pp...

Similarly, in the early 20th century, Norwegian folklorist Reidar Thoralf Christiansen classified the tale as belonging to type 425, "The Search for...

type 403, "The Black and the White Bride". Norwegian folklorist Reidar Thoralf Christiansen classified the tale as an Irish variant of Cinderella, which...

seal bride type has been assigned the number ML 4080 under Reidar Thoralf Christiansen's system of classification of migratory folktales. These stories...

published a Northern European variant, from Norway. According to Reidar Thoralf Christiansen, the tale was an "importation", whose source was a hawkerwoman...

trooped out of the mill, and danced on the green nearby ...". Reidar Thoralf Christiansen's original Migratory Legends established "Type 4090, Watersprite...

get in. In an early 20th century study, Norwegian folklorist Reidar Thoralf Christiansen stated that the variants of the tale in Norway alone were "far...