The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

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Scandinavian countries

Scandinavian countries.
Scholars in the Scandinavian region began relatively early to collect, classify, and comment on folk tales. As in Germany, this movement was inspired by romanticism with its interest in and idealization of folk literature. Although each of the Scandinavian countries had its own political and cultural peculiarities, they were all very much influenced by Germany. Therefore, the publication of the Grimms' collection , Kinder‐ und Hausmärchen , was the chief stimulus toward collecting folk tales among the Scandinavian people. Denmark, the southernmost and closest country to Germany and Western Europe, as always took the lead. In 1816 the major Danish romantic poet and playwright Adam Oehlenschläger (1779–1850) published a collection, which contained six fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm as well as several fairy tales...

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