Jacob Grimm Wilhelm Grimm 16 min read

A jealous queen, a magic mirror, a poisoned apple, and a fairest maiden who sleeps in a glass coffin, the immortal tale of Snow White, in Icelandic.

This 1852 Icelandic edition presents the Brothers Grimm's 'Snow White,' one of the most beloved of all fairy tales. Timeless, enchanting, foundational. Read it for the classic Grimm fairy story of the fairest of them all, translated for Icelandic children.

In its time

Published in 1852, during the 1850s, fairy tale and moral fantasy for a mass reading public; the sensation novel stirs.

Reading it

16 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).