@crusadeofashes@folklore@folklorethursday I think the target audience has been as always been as confused as it is today. Asbjørnsen's brief first publication of folktales was intended for children (and it was illustrated, too), and when Asbjørnsen & Moe solicited subscriptions in 1840, it was for a forthcoming collection of children's and nursery tales. But they pulled back a little for a while, simply terming their collections folktales, until the very end of their lives, when they again began issuing collections of children's tales (omitting the more salacious stories, of course).