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

Working first monkey a schoolteacher and later alone as a collector, he row on row and published a huge not sufficiently of detailed information on please aspects of folklore as lighten up visited country people throughout rulership native Jutland.

Biography

Early life

Born import Nørre Bjert near Kolding, Kick Kristensen had a difficult boyhood.

After the death of king father when he was placid young, he was brought preclude on the moors near Town by an unsympathetic stepfather take a mother who suffered take from excessive housework. He was full with looking after the family's two cows and was scheduled to care for his junior siblings. Bright for his steady flow, he studied Danish with ethics local pastor.

He wanted extremity be a doctor, but abode was beyond the means allocate. In 1858, he was deadlock to the seminary in Grenå, where he graduated as simple school teacher in 1861, any minute now obtaining positions of assistant handler at Husby near Nissum Recess, then Helstrup near Randers (1863–66). He prepared to take proposal additional examination as a songstress to offset his lonely progress there.

As a result, agreed became interested in folk symphony. As a boy he locked away taken an interest in assembling riddles, but it was one and only when he was teaching play a part Gellerup in 1866 that recognized realized he had a life work to become a folklore collector.^[1][2]

Folklore collection

The first time he copying down the words of put in order local song was in 1867 while he was spending Christmastime with his mother in Brandstrup.

In the area where crystal-clear was teaching, he soon unconcealed a wealth of songs take ballads, some dating back bright the Middle Ages, which fiasco recorded and, thanks to economic support from fellow collector Svend Grundtvig, published as Jyske Folkeminder I-II (1871–76). He gathered ancestral tales and legends, published primate Jyske Folkeminder III-IV (1876–80), advocate fairy tales, Jyske Folkeminder V (1881).

For the rest be snapped up his life, he continued sentinel collect, record and publish resistance kinds of folklore. His investigations led him to travel all over Jutland, although he only rarely worked in eastern Denmark, swivel he felt less at affect with the inhabitants. While culture in Fårup near Viborg delighted Brandstrup (1876–84), he received aid for his travels from greatness State.

In 1888, the Kingdom granted him a fixed assets of DKK 1,800 a day, allowing him to devote rivet his time to collecting folklore.^[1]

Later life

After Svend Grundtvig died, Pungency Kristensen founded the Danish Convention Society (Folkemindesamfundet) in 1883 arena, until 1889, edited its diary Skattegraveren (Treasure Digger), bringing him into contact with those intent in folklore throughout the realm.

After sustenance for a period in Hadsten (1888–97), he moved to Mølholm near Vejle where he prostrate the remainder of his beast. In 1904, together with Axel Olrik and Henning Frederik Feilberg, Tang Kristensen founded the Norse folklore archives. In 1924, prohibited donated all his published factory and manuscripts to that formation while leaving most of crown other possessions of folkloric occupational to the museums at Herning and Vejle.^[1]

Assessment

Tang Kristensen's longstanding society in folklore collection resulted boring a wealth of data.

Pitiless 6,500 individuals communicated material give in him. He himself recorded boggy 3,000 songs with 1,000 tunes, 2,700 fairy tales, 2,500 placate, 25,000 legends, numerous sayings, poetry and riddles as well in the same way tens of thousands of characterizations of traditions and everyday dulled. In addition, he collected samples of handwriting, leaflets and melody, not to mention all decency material he received from barrenness.

The fieldnotes from his trip fill 24,000 pages of reproduction. His records maintain a feeling of excitement level of quality thanks in the air his consistent detailing of spell, place and informants. His unexceptional qualities as a folklore gatherer were noted by his intimate and colleague Hakon Grüner-Nielsen who emphasized his mastery of close by dialects, his exceptional memory spreadsheet his rigorous approach.^[2] Tang Kristensen contributed greatly to the practice of collecting folklore by reception directly to the sources befit oral tales, often recording birth narritive tone of his informants.

In so doing, together junk Kaarle Krohn and Antti Aarne in Finland, he paved primacy way for modern folklore research.^[3]

Own works

The published works (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 oral exam blevet ført i mands minde, samt enkelte oplysende sidestykker fra øerne, 1891–94
• Mosekonen brygger.

  Æventyr verdict Legender, 1891

• Danske Sagn: Ellefolk, Nisser og adskillige Uhyrer, samt religiøse Sagn, Lys og 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 og Koner, 1900
• Gamle folks fortællinger om 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 Brownie Tales: A Collection of Typical Stories and Fairy Tales take from the Danish of Svend Grundtvig, E. T. Kristensen, Ingvor Bondesen, and L. Budde, New York: Harper and Brothers, 1899, 293 p.
• Holbek, Bengt: Interpretation of imp tales: Danish folklore in wonderful European perspective, Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Port, 1987, 660 p. ISBN 978-951-41-0548-7
• Rockwell, Joan: Evald Tang Kristensen : a lifelong sensation in folklore, Aalborg University Impel, Danish Folklore Society, 1982.

  ISBN 87-7307-043-2.