Author:
Publisher: Abela Publishing
Keywords: tales, folk, world, legend, myths, norse, popular
Number of Pages: 618
Published: 2010-03-07
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1907256490
ISBN-13: 9781907256493

This is George Dasent’s classic collection of Scandinavian folklore. This is not about Norse mythology per se; so if you are looking for tales of Odin, Loki, and Freya etc., we would refer you to a volume entitled Tiivistelmä. Rather, this is a volume that is more fairy and less Viking, or Saga, in nature. This is an anthology of folk tales, similar to the Grimm Brothers, or Campbell’s Popular Tales of the West Highlands (also published by Abela Publishing). All of the usual suspects are in place, including giants, trolls, witches, evil step-siblings, magical boons and tasks, and

Author: Marjory Wardrop
Publisher: Abela Publishing
Keywords: folk, tales, world, legend, myths, georgian
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2009-07-31
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 1907256121
ISBN-13: 9781907256127

It is not widely known that the Caucasus corridor, geographic home to the nation of Georgia, was a well travelled arm of the famous Silk Route that linked Asia and Europe. Silk, merchandise, and stories were traded through this region for countless generations. On one hand, Georgia shared a religious and political connection with Byzantium (Christendom), and on the other a constant cultural discourse with Persia and Turkey (Islam). In later years, links to Russia further enriched the cultural traditions of this crossroad of civilisations. It is therefore not surprising that the nation of Georg

Author: E B Mawr
Publisher: Abela Publishing
Keywords: tales, folk, world, legend, legends, fairy, roumanian, myths
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2009-06-08
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0956058493
ISBN-13: 9780956058492

Given Romania’s long and diverse cultural history, it is no surprise that the country has such a rich tapestry of folk tales, fairy tales, and legends. It is fortunate that so many of these stories survived the country’s turbulent history and were passed down throughout the ages to countless Romanian children. Roumanian Fairy Tales & Legends is a collection of seventeen of Romania’s most fascinating tales, painstakingly researched and deftly translated by E.B. Mawr. A percentage of the sales from this book will be donated to support the under-privileged people of Romania

Author: Frank B Linderman
Publisher: Abela Publishing
Keywords: tales, world, folk, legend, stories, myths, indian
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 2009-11-23
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 1907256261
ISBN-13: 9781907256264

This volume was written and recorded in a time when the great Northwest was rapidly becoming a settled country. These 22 "Why" stories from the Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Cree tribes were handed down from father to son. 33% of the profit will be donated to the American Indian Education Fund

Authors:W H I Bleek, John Halsted,
Publisher: Abela Publishing
Keywords: folk, tales, world, legend, lore, bushman, specimens, myths
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 2009-08-17
List price: $7.49
ISBN-10: 190725613X
ISBN-13: 9781907256134

Specimens of Bushman Folk-lore was published by Dr. WHI Bleek only after he’d overcome many great difficulties (and great they were in late 1800s South Africa). So complete is this volume that Dr. Bleek even provides explanations on how to make the many click sounds that are endemic to the Bushman language. Good luck wrapping your tongue around them! This 260 page volume contains 84 stories about Bushman myths and legends, including interpretations of the natural world, animal fables, the story of the first man, and customs, superstitions, and more. There are stories about girls and fr

Author: Joseph Jacobs
Publisher: Abela Publishing
Keywords: tales, folk, world, legend, myths, fairy, english
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2009-06-22
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 1907256040
ISBN-13: 9781907256042

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, please, grandma’. Fairy tales are stories in which occurs something ’fairy’, something extraordinary--fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals, or the remarkable stupidity of some of the characters. Many of the tales in this volume are what folklorists call Drolls (a humorous story in which there is a jester or a wag) . They justify the title of "Merrie England", a phrase which

Author: Robert Leighton
Publisher: Abela Publishing
Keywords: glorious, olaf
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2010-03-27
List price: $10.49
ISBN-10: 190725661X
ISBN-13: 9781907256615

The hero in this volume is not an imaginary one; he was a real flesh and blood man who reigned as King of Norway just over a thousand years ago. The main facts of his adventurous career -- his boyhood of slavery in Estonia, his life at the court of King Valdemar, his wanderings as a Viking, the many battles he fought, his conversion to Christianity in England, and his ultimate return to his native land -- are set forth in the various Icelandic sagas dealing with the period in which he lived. The author made free use of these old time records, and added only such probable incidents as were nece