Translator was identified in earlier editions as: "R. B--g".

Release date is 2026-04-20

Om narras, "skarfva" och berätta sagor -- Historien om de sju korparna och den trogna systern -- Kannitverstan -- De tre systrarna med glashjärtan -- Den gamle trollkarlen -- Kung Trastnäbb -- Michel, den fader- och moderlöse gossen från Radhost -- Den lustige Schwanda -- Om Jöns, som ville lära sig rysa -- Historien om den sköna Melusina -- Syster Ödmjuk -- Svärdet Zuniga -- Den onde anden i flaskan -- Maruschka och de tolf månaderna -- Friskytten -- Klas Törnpåk.

Ronnie Sahlberg and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. Thanks to Project Runeberg for providing the scans.

Ny Samling Folksagor by Otto Spamer is a collection of folk tales written in the late 19th century. The volume gathers moral, magical, and comic stories from the European tradition, mixing Germanic classics with fresh retellings and a reflective preface on the nature of storytelling.

The opening of the collection begins with a lively essay that contrasts lies, exaggeration (“skarfva”), and true fairy tales, spotlighting the Hessian braggart “Lögnpetter” and his Münchhausen‑style boasts. It then moves through a suite of narratives: a devoted sister who keeps seven years of silent spinning to redeem her brothers turned into ravens; a journeyman in Amsterdam who mistakes “Kannitverstan” for a man’s name and learns humility amid wealth and a funeral; three princesses with fragile glass hearts and a suitor who trains as a glazier with “velvet hands”; two stolen children who shapeshift to escape an evil sorcerer; the proud princess humbled in King Thrushbeard; and the beginning of a Moravian‑Wallachian tale about the orphan Michel, which cuts off as his uncle leads him into the caves of Radhošť. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Originally published: Stockholm: F & G Beijers Bokförlagsaktiebolag, 1896