Author : Frances Jenkins Olcott Year of publication: 2010 Format: Paperback Signature: No First edition :No Condition: New Category: Childrens books Cost of book: £5.99 Price negotiable: No
Specifics:
33% of the pubnlisher’s
profit from this book will be donated to charities.This is a reprint of FJ Olcott's 1928 classic containing stories from the East Baltic.Pages 262 ISBN 978-1-907256-58-5
The selections in this book
come from German and English sources. There is a mass of East Baltic folk-lore
from which to choose which gives but a feeble idea of the extent of Baltic
folk-lore.
In this volume you will find
tales of Enchantments, Wizards, Witches, Magic Spells, Nixy Queens, Giants,
Fairy White Reindeer, and glittering Treasures from the Baltic Lands --
Lapland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Their setting is the Long
Winter Night with its brilliant play of Northern Lights over the snow-covered
tundra; or the brief Arctic summer--its sun burning night and day--with its
birds, flowers, insect-clouds, singing waters, and almost tropic heat; or the
golden sunshine of the southern amber coast.
But it is the Northern Lights
themselves, flashing and flaming through the dark heavens, that cast their
mystic weirdness over many of these tales moulded by the peculiar imagination
of the Asiatic and European East Baltic folks.
The farther our stories draw
south from Lapland, the lower sink the Northern Lights and their influence on
folk-tales, till at last they merge with the warmer lights of Lithuania - the
amber-land. Wizards and wizardry abound in Lappish, Finnish, and Estonian
tales, Witches appear more often in Latvian and Lithuanian ones. And in all
these countries except Lapland, many European folk-tale themes, which we know
in the Grimm collection, are found in new forms.
FRANCES JENKINS OLCOTT
1928 Trade enquiries welcome. The book can also be purchased via reputable Wholesalers and Retailers
and via the Abela website at www.AbelaPublishing.com/catalogue.html
