The Three Tales Chosen, the Establishment of the Texts and the Charting of Deviations, with a Collation of the 'Original Tales,' the Check Translations, and the Danish and Turkish Texts. Fairytale: An Interdisciplinary Turco-Danish Study of the Collective v. the Individual Nature of the Response to Literature. Report No. 11. Revised.

Part of the interdisciplinary Turko-Danish Fairytale Project, this paper provides information about the three fairy tales chosen for study: "The Snake, the Fox, and the Man,""The Gold Apple," and "Per Smed's Whip." Various sections of the paper contain descriptions of the following: (1) the selection procedures, (2) the procedures used in establishing "identity" between the three tales in Danish and Turkish, (3) procedures used in editing the tales, and (4) texts and variants of each tale in Turkish, Danish, and English. (FL)