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Death, graveyard, cross
The stork had given her shelter to the day of her death. I sang at her funeral," said the Wind, "as I had sung at her father's; I know where his grave is, and her grave, but no one else knows.
Now there are new times, changed times. The old highway is lost in the fields, old cemeteries have been made into new roads, and soon the steam engine, with its row of cars, will come to rush over the forgotten graves of unknown ancestors. Whew, whew, whew! On, on!
Overview
The tales are sorted by year. The leading numbers refer to the number of occurrences of the motif in the respective texts.
- 2 Dødningen (Danish title) (1830)
- 3 The Traveling Companion (1835)
- 3 The Wild Swans (1838)
- 1 Ninth Evening (1839)
- 1 The Metal Pig (1842)
- 1 The Bond of Friendship (1842)
- 1 A Rose from Homer's Grave (1842)
- 3 The Red Shoes (1845)
- 1 Grandmother (1845)
- 1 The Neighboring Families (1847)
- 1 Little Tuck (1847)
- 1 The Old House (1847)
- 1 A Story (1851)
- 2 The Silent Book (1851)
- 1 Thousands of Years from Now (1852)
- 3 The Old Tombstone (1852)
- 1 A Good Humor (1852)
- 2 She Was Good for Nothing (1852)
- 2 Ib and Little Christine (1855)
- 1 The Thorny Road of Honor (1855)
- 3 A String of Pearls (1856)
- 1 Something (1858)
- 5 The Marsh King's Daughter (1858)
- 2 The Wind Tells about Valdemar Daae and His Daughters (1859)
- 1 Ole, the Tower Keeper (1859)
- 2 Anne Lisbeth (1859)
- 4 The Child in the Grave (1859)
- 9 A Story from the Sand Dunes (1859)
- 1 The Psyche (1861)
- 1 The Old Church Bell (1861)
- 1 The Bird of Folklore (1864)
- 2 The Will-o'-the-Wisps Are in Town (1865)
- 1 Golden Treasure (1865)
- 2 Godfather's Picture Book (1868)
- 3 Chicken Grethe's Family (1869)
- 1 Danish Popular Legends (1870)
- 2 What Old Johanne Told (1872)
- 1 The Gate Key (1872)
- 1 Aunty Toothache (1872)
- 1 Folks Say - (1949)
- 1 Urbanus (1949)
- 1 Kartoflerne (Danish title) (1953)