More Tales Of Snow & Ice

by Clive Gilson (Editor)

Overview

This is the second in a two volume collection of tales from Scandinavia. There is a clear and rich tradition of storytelling in the north, perhaps dictated by long winter nights and roaring fires. Whenever you read the sagas or pick up on the wandering collections of Hans Christien Andersen and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, amongst many others, you tap into a centuries old heritage wrapped in wonder and magic and outlandish heroism.

In this second volume I've pulled together some more of my favourite stories as told by Andersen, Asbjørnsen, Zacharias Topelius and Andrew Lang. The stories have been drawn from Lang's Coloured Fairy Books, Andersen's Fairy Tales, from The Birch and the Star, and Other Stories, and from Asbjørnsen collaboration on Tales from the Fjeld.

As with the collections from the British Isles published recently, It's always a pleasure and never a chore to re-read and re-present these lovely stories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781913500221
Publisher:	Clive Gilson
Publication date:	12/16/2019
Series:	Tales from the World's Firesides - Europe , #8
Pages:	378
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.84(d)

About the Author

I was born in 1962 into a predominantly sporting household - Dad being a good footballer, playing senior amateur and lower league professional football in England, as well as running a series of private businesses in partnership with mum, herself an accomplished and medal winning dancer. I obtained a degree in History from Leeds University before wandering rather haphazardly into the emerging world of business computing in the late nineteen-eighties. A little like my sporting father, I followed a succession of amateur writing paths alongside my career in technology, including working as a freelance journalist and book reviewer, my one claim to fame being a by-line in a national newspaper in the UK, The Sunday People. I also spent 10 years treading the boards, appearing all over the south of the UK in pantos and plays, in village halls and occasionally on the stage of a professional theatre or two. Following the sporting theme, and a while after I hung up my own boots, I worked on live TV broadcasts for the BBC, ITV, TVNZ, EuroSport and others as a rugby "Stato", covering Heineken Cups, Six Nations, IRB World Sevens and IRB World Cups in the late '90's and early '00's. I try to combine my love of storytelling with a passion for information technology, and am currently Vice President - Technology with a major UK FinTech company.

Table of Contents

PREFACE

THE ELDERBUSH

SILLY MEN AND CUNNING WIVES

THE PRINCESS IN THE CHEST

TAPER TOM.

THE FALSE COLLAR

THE TROLLS IN HEDALE WOOD.

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS IN THE FOREST

THE SKIPPER AND OLD NICK.

THE FIR TREE

GOODY GAINST-THE-STREAM

HOW TO WIN A PRINCE

THE MERRY WIVES

BOOTS AND THE BEASTS

THE LEAP-FROG

THE SWEETHEART IN THE WOOD

I KNOW WHAT I HAVE LEARNED

HOW THEY GOT HAIRLOCK HOME

THE NAUGHTY BOY

OSBORN BOOTS AND MR. GLIBTONGUE.

JESPER WHO HERDED THE HARES

THIS IS THE LAD WHO SOLD THE PIG

THE OLD HOUSE

THE SHEEP AND THE PIG WHO SET UP HOUSE

KING LINDORM

THE GOLDEN PALACE THAT HUNG IN THE AIR

THE REAL PRINCESS

LITTLE FREDDY WITH HIS FIDDLE

MAIDEN BRIGHT-EYE

MOTHER ROUNDABOUT’S DAUGHTER

THE SHADOW

THE GREEN KNIGHT

MASTER AND PUPIL

BOOTS AND HIS CREW

THE STORY OF A MOTHER

THE TOWN-MOUSE AND THE FELL-MOUSE

MINNIKIN

SILLY MATT

THE DRAGON OF THE NORTH

KING VALEMON, THE WHITE BEAR

THE GOLDEN BIRD

HISTORICAL NOTES

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Editorial Reviews

I have edited Clive Gilson’s books for over a decade now – he’s prolific and can turn his hand to many genres. poetry, short fiction, contemporary novels, folklore and science fiction – and the common theme is that none of them ever fails to take my breath away. There’s something in each story that is either memorably poignant, hauntingly unnerving or sidesplittingly funny.

Lorna Howarth, The Write Factor

From the Publisher