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Danish Folklore Data Nexus. www.purl.org/ danishfolktales/ (accessed october 5, 2012). created by timothy r. tangherlini.
Evald Tang Kristensen was perhaps one of the most prolific collectors of folklore in europe, with about 3,500 named sources. The school-teacher, who walked all over Denmark for more than 50 years collecting stories, songs, and detailed descriptions of everyday Danish life, was also notable in that he, unlike many of his contemporaries, noted context and, unlike the far better known grimm brothers, kristensen wrote and preserved the exact words of the narrators. Fairy tale scholar bengt holbek used tales from etk, as he called kristensen, because of these factors, and holbek's work is perhaps the main reason American scholars are familiar with etk at all.
Timothy R. Tangherlini has been studying, translating, and working with the etk legend collection since before his 1988 JAF article, "Ships, Fogs, and traveling pairs: plague legend migration in Scandinavia" (101:176-206). in conjunction with the publication (2013) of his book, Danish Folktales, Legends, and Other Stories (university of Washington press), tangherlini has produced an accompanying DVD...