Färöiska folksagor upptecknade efter 1950

Abstract

The author gives in this article an account of the collecting of folktales in the Faroe Islands during the Iast decades and presents four informants and eight of their tales. In a commentary she has classified the folktales (AT + number) according to Aarne-Thompson's international system, The Types of the Folktalc (1961), and has given information about their relation to the local tradition. Collecting of folktales in former times has been done mainly by one person, the Faroese philologist Jakob Jakobsen, who was travelling in the islands for that purpose in 1892—93 and in 1898. Parts of his records, which are kept
in the national library in Tórshavn, he published in Fxrøske Folkesagn og Æventyr (1898—1901). In the fifties the author of this article made an inventory and classification of Faroese folktales, among which Jakobsen's collcctions made the greater part.
At the same time she initiated the collecting of folktales of today by sending out questionaries. In the sixties and the seventies a native collection activity developed in close connection with the department of Faroese langnage and culture at the Faroese academy, Fróðskaparsetur Føroya.

The following folktales have been published in the article:
1. The Fox and the Hag. AT 15 + 2.
2. The Legless One. AT 838.
3. The Crowdaughter. AT 480 + 510.
4. The Hornless Cow. AT 327 A.
5. Kola (the nam; of a sooty girl). AT 311.
6. The Parson's Black Pudding. AT 1741*.
7. Gegónin (an invented word). AT 571 B.
8. The Three Red Goose-heads from Betlehem. AT 1360 C.