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A review by tricky
Collected Folk Tales by Alan Garner
5.0
Now I have to be honest here I love fairy tales and origin stories. Two of most cherished books are a plain red cover hardback of Grimm’s fairy tales and the other is called ‘The Dreamtime’ which is Australian Indigenous stories. I have probably read both a couple hundred times and I am not kidding there. So when it comes to fairy tales I am a bit of a devotee and thus somewhat biased.
Alan Garner has collected a really interesting group of fairy tales from around the world.Garner’s collection is wonderful, the stories vary in length and complexity. I really enjoyed the ‘Goblin Spider’, Tarm Wethelan’. ‘Asari’, ‘Hoichi – The Fearless’, Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm’, ‘Loki’ and ‘Baldur the Bright’.
I found the story ‘Barguest of Nidderdale’ quite tongue in cheek as you have this very scary beast that will not heed to anyone but scampers when the wife opens the front door.
I like with Assipattle how the tongue of the Stoorworm cloving the earth and makes a length of sea that now divides Denmark from Swedeland and Narroway. I love those origin stories that tell you how things commenced.
Tarm Wethelan is a story featuring King Arthur. As part of his quest King Arthur has to discover what a woman’s greatest desire is and the correct answer will surprise you for is pure simplicity and absolute correctness.
The Norse stories of Loki and Baldur the Bright were wonderful and the humour was just fantastic.
Read this book, escape into a world where right and wrong can be blurred, good and evil is mixed and the worlds created are surreal, magical and familiar. It is a great collection of stories and I really enjoyed the book.
Alan Garner has collected a really interesting group of fairy tales from around the world.Garner’s collection is wonderful, the stories vary in length and complexity. I really enjoyed the ‘Goblin Spider’, Tarm Wethelan’. ‘Asari’, ‘Hoichi – The Fearless’, Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm’, ‘Loki’ and ‘Baldur the Bright’.
I found the story ‘Barguest of Nidderdale’ quite tongue in cheek as you have this very scary beast that will not heed to anyone but scampers when the wife opens the front door.
I like with Assipattle how the tongue of the Stoorworm cloving the earth and makes a length of sea that now divides Denmark from Swedeland and Narroway. I love those origin stories that tell you how things commenced.
Tarm Wethelan is a story featuring King Arthur. As part of his quest King Arthur has to discover what a woman’s greatest desire is and the correct answer will surprise you for is pure simplicity and absolute correctness.
The Norse stories of Loki and Baldur the Bright were wonderful and the humour was just fantastic.
Read this book, escape into a world where right and wrong can be blurred, good and evil is mixed and the worlds created are surreal, magical and familiar. It is a great collection of stories and I really enjoyed the book.