Does anybody remember a book of stories about scandanavian or norwegian folk tales?

Question

I remember reading a book when I was a kid in the 80's at the school library about tales set in forests and mountains, and there were giants and cyclopses, but there were always a certain number of them, like 7 giants and they'd lived in a mountain, or other stories that had to do with nordic type people. It was at a school library from kindergarten to 8th grade, so it had that reading level. I wish I knew the name of that book, loved the stories, but every folk tale book I look at doesn't seem to have these same stories :( Help anyone!!

Also, there aren't many animals in the tales and theres something crazy like 20 or 30 of them and they all have this thing about them having a certain number of the mythical creatures, like 3 or 7 or a dozen, if you've ever read it you'd know what I'm talking about, its a weird thing with the number of them and symmetry, like there'd be 9 creatures, there would be 3 one way, 3 another way, and 3 others another way... very compartmental

Answer 1

I don't remember this book, but I have found a site that may help you in your search if it's really bugging you:

http://loganberrybooks.com/stump.html

Quite a few people have described a memory of a book they read but can't remember the title and have been helped through this site.

Answer 2

i have heard this once a lengthy time period in the past. that's declared that the mummies and tombs we've have a curse on them, if someone opens it, they finally end up death mysteriously. back in the 1920s a set of archeologists (American i trust or British) unfolded some tomb, and all ended up death mysteriously. i do not recognize, it truly is what I heard

Answer 3

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

database on folklore if you find the story let me know im curious now