Henning Sehmsdorf is a professor emeritus at the University of Washington, where he taught Scandinavian and Comparative Literature, and Folklore for nearly three decades. Also by Henning Sehmsdorf: Knut Hamsun's Pan: Myth and Symbol; Short Stories from Norway 1850-1900; New Norwegian Plays (with Janet Garton; Scandinavian Folk Belief and Legend (with Reimund Kvideland); Nordic Folklore: Recent Studies (with Reimund Kvideland); All The World's Reward: Folktales Told by Five Scandinavian Storytellers (with Reimund Kvideland); Continuity of Norwegian Tradition in the Pacific Northwest.