Norske eventyr — the fairy tales Asbjørnsen and Moe saved

The corpus of Norwegian folk tales — the Three Billy Goats Gruff, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Soria Moria, the Ash Lad — collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in the 1840s, the literary act that saved them from oral disappearance.