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Tales From The Land Of Dragons 

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I’ve always drawn heavily on traditional folk and fairy tales, and in so doing have amassed a collection of many thousands of these tales from around the world. It has always been a long-standing intention to gather these stories together and to create a free library of these tales that tell the stories of places and peoples around the world.
Now that I’ve got a digitised archive up and running, I’m finally in a position to start on the great project… and this volume, Tales from the Land of Dragons, is the first in a set of collections covering the whole of the British Isles.

Time and facility allowing, I fully intend to go northwards next, covering the lands of ice and snow, before then heading south and east across Europe. Even then we’ll just be scratching the surface. Far flung continents, lands and peoples beckon us ever onwards in our journey.

That’s the great gift in storytelling. Since the first of our ancestors sat around in a cave somewhere, contemplating an ape’s place in the world, we have, as a species, told each other stories of magic and cunning and caution and love. When I began to read through tales from the Celts, tales from Indonesia, tales from Africa and the Far East, tales from everywhere, one of the things that struck me clearly was just how similar are the roots.

We share characters and characteristics. The natures of these tales are so similar underneath the local camouflage. We clearly share a storytelling heritage so much deeper than the world that we see superficially as always having been just as it is now.

These tales, whenever and wherever their origin, were originally told by firelight as a way of preserving histories and educating both adult and child. These tales form part of our shared heritage, witches, warts and all. They can be dark and violent. They can be sweet and loving. They are we and we are they in many, many ways.

Every story does, by the way, have a brief attribution, both of the original collector / writer and the title that this particular version has been adapted from. I’ve loved reading and re-reading all of these stories. I hope you do too.

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PREFACE
A BOY THAT VISITED FAIRYLAND
BETH GELLERT
BRYNEGLWYS WAGGONERS
CADER IDRIS DANCERS
CROWS
DAFYDD FAWR
DICK THE FIDDLER AND THE FAIRY CROWN-PIECE
ELIDORUS AND THE FAIRIES
FFRIDD YR YWEN
GWRGAN FARFDRWCH’S FABLE
HAVELOK THE DANE
HE WHO WOULD MARRY A FAIRY
HOW THE CYMRY LAND BECAME INHABITED 
KADDY’S LUCK
KING ARTHUR’S CAVE
OLD GWILYM
ORIGIN OF THE WELSH
POWELL, PRINCE OF DYFED
POWELL AND HIS BRIDE
ROBERT ROBERTS AND THE FAIRIES
ROWLI PUGH
TAFFY AP SION
THE BABY-FARMER
THE BLACK GREYHOUND
THE BOY THAT WAS NAMED TROUBLE 
THE CORWRION CHANGELING LEGEND 
THE CRAIG-Y-DON BLACKSMITH
THE DREAM OF MAXEN WLEDIG
THE EGG SHELL POTTAGE
THE FAIRIES OF CARAGONAN
THE FAIRIES’ MINT
THE FAIRY OF THE DELL
THE FAIRY’S MIDWIFE
THE GREAT RED DRAGON OF WALES 
THE HERON, THE CAT & THE BRAMBLE 
THE HIDDEN GOLDEN CHAIR
THE KING’S FOOT HOLDER
THE LONG-LIVED ANCESTORS
THE MAIDEN OF THE GREEN FOREST 
THE MIGHTY MONSTER AFANG
THE OLD MAN AND THE FAIRIES
THE PENTREFOELAS LEGEND
THE RED BANDITS OF MONTGOMERY 
THE SHEPHERD OF MYDDVAI
THE SILVER SHILLINGS
THE SON OF LLECH Y DERWYDD
THE SPELLBOUND MAN

THE STORY OF THE PIG-TROUGH
THE TALE OF IVAN
THE TOUCH OF CLAY
THE TREASURE STONE OF THE FAIRIES 
THE TWO CAT WITCHES
THE WELSH FAIRIES HOLD A MEETING 
WELSH RABBIT AND HUNTED HARES 
WHY THE BACKDOOR WAS FRONT 
WILLIAM DAVIES
Y FUWCH GYFEILIORN 
HISTORICAL NOTES 
ABOUT THE EDITOR

Om författaren

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, Euro Sport 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 Fin Tech company.

You can find out more about Clive’s work and contact me at: https://www.boyonabench.com
Språk Engelska ● Formatera EPUB ● Sidor 312 ● ISBN 9781913500511 ● Filstorlek 0.3 MB ● Redaktör Clive Gilson ● Utgivare Clive Gilson ● Publicerad 2019 ● Utgåva 1 ● Nedladdningsbara 24 månader ● Valuta EUR ● ID 7808023 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM
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