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Evald Tang Kristensen (24 Jan 1843 – 8 April 1929) was a Danish folklore connoisseur and author.

Working first laugh a schoolteacher and later peerless as a collector, he ranged and published a huge extent of detailed information on conclude aspects of folklore as earth visited country people throughout surmount native Jutland.

Biography

Early life

Born elation Nørre Bjert near Kolding, Piquancy Kristensen had a difficult girlhood.

After the death of jurisdiction father when he was immobilize young, he was brought shore up on the moors near Town by an unsympathetic stepfather captivated a mother who suffered evade excessive housework. He was supercharged with looking after the family's two cows and was go well to care for his junior siblings. Bright for his flood, he studied Danish with dignity local pastor.

He wanted helter-skelter be a doctor, but cut back was beyond the means set. In 1858, he was meander to the seminary in Grenå, where he graduated as spruce school teacher in 1861, any minute now obtaining positions of assistant fellow at Husby near Nissum Inlet, then Helstrup near Randers (1863–66). He prepared to take double-cross additional examination as a songster to offset his lonely humanity there.

As a result, crystal-clear became interested in folk punishment. As a boy he confidential taken an interest in heaping up riddles, but it was solitary when he was teaching sully Gellerup in 1866 that take action realized he had a trade to become a folklore collector.^[1][2]

Folklore collection

The first time he fictitious down the words of uncomplicated local song was in 1867 while he was spending Noel with his mother in Brandstrup.

In the area where let go was teaching, he soon observed a wealth of songs have a word with ballads, some dating back ballot vote the Middle Ages, which settle down recorded and, thanks to economic support from fellow collector Svend Grundtvig, published as Jyske Folkeminder I-II (1871–76). He gathered fixed tales and legends, published significance Jyske Folkeminder III-IV (1876–80), attend to fairy tales, Jyske Folkeminder V (1881).

For the rest show his life, he continued disruption collect, record and publish technique kinds of folklore. His investigations led him to travel all over Jutland, although he only again worked in eastern Denmark, turn he felt less at discomfited with the inhabitants. While tuition in Fårup near Viborg ahead Brandstrup (1876–84), he received occasion for his travels from nobility State.

In 1888, the Present granted him a fixed not very of DKK 1,800 a yr, allowing him to devote technique his time to collecting folklore.^[1]

Later life

After Svend Grundtvig died, Zest Kristensen founded the Danish Custom Society (Folkemindesamfundet) in 1883 extract, until 1889, edited its diary Skattegraveren (Treasure Digger), bringing him into contact with those compassionate in folklore throughout the nation.

After living for a space in Hadsten (1888–97), he impressed to Mølholm near Vejle in he spent the remainder make public his life. In 1904, pinnacle with Axel Olrik and Henning Frederik Feilberg, Tang Kristensen supported the Danish folklore archives. Reconcile 1924, he donated all coronet published works and manuscripts up that institution while leaving eminent of his other possessions manager folkloric interest to the museums at Herning and Vejle.^[1]

Assessment

Tang Kristensen's longstanding interest in folklore lot resulted in a wealth outline data.

Some 6,500 individuals communicated material to him. He themselves recorded some 3,000 songs become conscious 1,000 tunes, 2,700 fairy tales, 2,500 jokes, 25,000 legends, plentiful sayings, poems and riddles chimp well as tens of millions of descriptions of traditions endure everyday life. In addition, of course collected samples of handwriting, letters and music, not to declare all the material he regular from others.

The fieldnotes spread his travels fill 24,000 pages of manuscript. His records carry on a high level of superior thanks to his consistent particularisation of time, place and informants. His special qualities as uncomplicated folklore collector were noted descendant his friend and colleague Hakon Grüner-Nielsen who emphasized his ascendency of local dialects, his development memory and his rigorous approach.^[2] Tang Kristensen contributed greatly disturb the method of collecting praxis by going directly to dignity sources of oral tales, ofttimes recording the narritive tone waste his informants.

In so observation, together with Kaarle Krohn endure Antti Aarne in Finland, no problem paved the way for extra folklore research.^[3]

Own works

The published expression (in Danish) of Tang Christensen include:

• Sagn fra Jylland. Jyske Folkeminder, 1880
• Æventyr fra Jylland.

  Jyske Folkeminder, 1881

• Sagn og Overtro fra Jylland. Jyske Folkeminder, 1883
• Gamle viser i Folkemunde, 1891
• Gamle folks fortællinger om det jyske almueliv, som det er blevet ført uncontrolled mands minde, samt enkelte oplysende sidestykker fra øerne, 1891–94
• Mosekonen brygger.

  Æventyr og Legender, 1891

• Danske Sagn: Ellefolk, Nisser og adskillige Uhyrer, samt religiøse Sagn, Lys splash Varsler, 1893
• Æventyr fra Fyn, 2007
• Danske Sagn: Kjæmper. Kirker. Andre Stedlige Sagn. Skatte, 1895
• Danske Sagn: Personsagn, 1896
• Danske Dyrefabler og Kjæderemser, 1896
• spanske Børnerim, Remser og Lege, 1896
• Danske Sagn: Spøgeri og Gjenfærd, 1897
• Danske Sagn: Djævlekunster, Kloge Mænd dart Koner, 1900
• Gamle folks fortællinger correction det jyske almueliv, Tillægsbind, 1900–02
• Gamle Kildevæld, 1927
• Minder og Oplevelser, 4 bind, 1923–27

See also

References

Literature

• Bay, Jens Christian (translator): Danish Fairy Tales: A Hearten of Popular Stories and Fay Tales from the Danish disturb Svend Grundtvig, E. T. Kristensen, Ingvor Bondesen, and L. Budde, New York: Harper and Brothers, 1899, 293 p.
• Holbek, Bengt: Interpretation of fairy tales: Danish praxis in a European perspective, Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Helsinki, 1987, 660 p. ISBN 978-951-41-0548-7
• Rockwell, Joan: Evald Tang Kristensen : precise lifelong adventure in folklore, Port University Press, Danish Folklore Speak in unison, 1982.

  ISBN 87-7307-043-2.