QLC 320: Fairytales, Fantasy, and Folklore

John Lang includes both audio and text versions of 655+ of Aesops' Fables.

Features retold folktales from across America and around the world.

From the University of Virginia Library, links to fairy stories, fables, and myths.

From the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

From the University of Rochester, a collection of texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information relating to King Arthur and his Knights.

From the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

From the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

From the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

A collection of links to fairy tales on the web from George Mason University.

A rich list created by Professor D. L. Ashliman at the University of Pittsburgh.

From the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

From the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

From the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

JoMA is sponsored by The Endicott Studio , a nonprofit organization dedicated to literary, visual, and performance arts inspired by myth, folklore, fairy tales, and the oral storytelling tradition.

From the University of South Florida, free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Search by Author, Book Genre, Collection, or Readability.

From the University of Virginia Library.

Norse Mythology for Smart People provides reliable, well-documented information on the fascinating mythology and religion of the Norse/Germanic peoples.

From the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

From the University of Virginia Library.

From the University of Virginia Library, links to fairy stories, fables, and myths.

Includes dozens of stories for children, young adult, and adult readers with texts of numerous fairy tales, legends, and myths.

Singing Bones is a podcast that looks at the origin of fairy tales, the bare bones of stories that have been the basis for so much of literature, film, and pop culture.

Features 47 annotated fairy tales, as well as the full unannotated texts of over 1500 familiar stories.

Links to myths from Europe, including Classical Mythology, Norse Mythology, Celtic Mythology, and Arthurian Legends. Also contains some explanatory notes and text.

This blog from the library of congress is a great repository for information on folktales, myths, and oral histories.