Life of peter asbjornsen
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PETER CHRISTEN ASBJORNSEN (1812-1885), and MOE, Jorgen Engebretsen (1813-1882), collectors of Norwegian folklore, so closely united in their life's work that it is unusual to name them apart.
Life of peter asbjornsen
Asbjdrnsen was born in Christiania on the 15th of January 1812; he belonged to an ancient family of the Gudbrandsdal, which is believed to have died with him. He became a student at the university in 1833, but as early as 1832, in his twentieth year, he had begun to collect and write down all the fairy stories and legends which he could meet with.
Later he began to wander on foot through the length and breadth of Norway, adding to his stores. Moe, who was born at Mo i Hole parsonage, in Sigdal Ringerike, on the 22nd of April 1813, met Asbjdrnsen first when he was fourteen years of age.
A close friendship began between them, and lasted to the end of their lives. In 1834 Asbjdrnsen discovered that Moe had started independently on a search for the re