Wonderful Stories From Northern Lands

ISBN: 9781331576990 出版年：2016 页码：267 Julia Goddard Forgotten Books

Among the marvels of the inchanted land of Folk lore none is greater than the freshness which every form retains, although it may be presented to us in a hundred different dresses. We may see and feel that under all these disguises we are looking on the same being but we are never tired of listening to the tale of his adventures, slightly as these may be varied in each of the many versions of his history. The repetition never wearies us: the monotony never becomes irksome. Even when by long acquaintance with some of these tales we know what is going to happen in others, we read or listen for the thousandth time with the feeling that Whether for old or young these stories can never lose their charm. The Child to Whom is told the old Greek tale of Psyche and Love,-how she was carried away to a cave in a lonely garden, where her sisters told her that she was wedded to a.