The Scandinavian myths form a linked chain of stories, creating a mighty, fantastical world teeming with gods and goddesses, master-smiths and magicians. Battles between gods and giants exist alongside
This volume contains forty-three English folk stories and tales. But why call them FAIRY STORIES? One cannot imagine a child saying, ‘Tell me a folk-tale’, or ‘Another nursery tale,
Celtic folklore overflows with vivid stories that fire the imagination. At the end of his highly successful English Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs compiled Celtic Fairy Tales, a book of
How was the earth formed, and where did animals come from? Why does the hippopotamus live in water, and why do cats chase rats? Imaginative answers to these and
A collection of myths, legends and folklore from around the world. Includes the stories of Prometheus, Hercules, Beowulf, Siegfried, Frithiof the Bold, Ilia Muromec, Roland, El Cid, and others.
