… Wolf and Jensen’s English translation of the entire book puts the famous laws into a very useful perspective …
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… it is full of clever ideas and observations, and alive with the personality of the writer-lucid, astute and fair. -British Folklore Studies Forum

Olrik’s Grundsaetninger sets forth a number of the basic principles for the study of folklore and outlines his epic laws of oral narrative. With this long-awaited translation, English readers now have available the rules which became the foundation of many folklore programs and the basis for the study of folk narrative.