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A wolf who eats a horse... 6 princess and princesses turned to stone...  a salmon a raven and a giant who keeps his heart hidden away.

 In this week's episode we'll talk bit about learning to read and ponder on the concept of vulnerability.   
 
Our story is adapted from :
The Norwegian Fairy Book
Edited by Klara Stroebe
Published 1922

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Integrity, Loyalty, Honesty, characteristics of the Norse Gods? Judge for yourself.

 In this week's episode: How Frey Won Gerda , the Giant Maiden, and How He Lost His Magic Sword, Frey longs for his sister Freya, sits  in a throne that is not his own and makes a fateful bargain.

We also learn about Skadi the daughter of Thiazi the giant and how she comes to mary a Vanir.
 
This week's story comes from Padraic Colum's classic:
The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths
Published 1920

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Remember to Dream Big ! 

Episode 22 is is a Finnish Tale -

It’s called :MIghty Mikko, The Story of a Poor Woodsman and a Grateful Fox.

Through the use of his cunning and witt - a little bit of digging up of some villagers gold and one roasted dragon but still, through largely non violent means the silver tongued fox creates a life the poor woodsman would never have allowed himself to even dream of.

Episode 22 is adapted from the book first published in 1922 called 

Mighty Mikko : a Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and folktales

By Parker Fillmore

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This week's episode is from perhaps the most famous of all the european fairy tale collections; The Grimm's, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales.

Our Version is taken from the translations by Edgar Taylor and Marian Edwardes  

The Raven  -
A baby, (a princess baby) that could not be quieted is transformed. A person passing by  has the chance to rescue her. Off course it won't be easy.  He will be tested and fail but will he still be successful ? 
How will he do it?
Will the princess and her saviour live happily ever after?
Have a listen and find out...

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This week's story comes to us from the 1894 book;

 Tales from the Punjab.

It’s is a book of folk tales collected from the people of the Punjab region of India  translated and written down for publication by the English Author Flora Annie Steel. Flora Annie Steel  lived from April 1847 –  April 1929. She spent 22 years living in Punjab region of India.

The prince starts his adventure by taking hold of a magical golden deer. The deer strikes a bargain with the prince to take him on a ride he will never forget. 

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This week we bring you a chilly little tale called  The Twelve Months. This story is popular in eastern and southern europe where hundreds of different variations have been told. Ours is based on the telling from the book :

Fairy Tales of the Slav peasants and Herdsmen
From the French of Alex. Chodsko Translated and Illustrated by Emily J. Harding

As we record this episode it is the hottest of hot summer days here in our corner of the world and a chilly winter tale seems just right. Our heroine will bravely trek into the frozen mountain forest and do what she has to without question. She’ll make her own way in the world despite …. Yes a nasty stepmother and stepsister problem. 

This is a tale of a good and kind heroine who accepts her fate without question and pushes forward against the odds, against her certain demise and impossible task. Yet, in the end, she is successful and her tormentors are … well frozen in ice and snow?   

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Episode 18 -

Playing with the concept of time and the desire to escape it's clutches, this weeks story is adapted from the 1885 collection of Romanian fairy tales :

Roumanian Fairy Tales
Collected by MITE KREMNITZ
Adapted and Arranged by J.M. Percival

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Today's story, Sif's Golden Hair: How Loki Wrought Mischief in Asgard

Loki of course gets himself into some trouble and must use his cunning to redeem himself.
After which he finds himself making another dangerous wager, a bet with a dwarf, that will risk the head on his shoulders 

Loki will transform himself into a gadfly and do his best to tip the scales in his own favor. 

The Warrior Goddess Sif will have a seriously bad hair day

the dwellers in asgard will gain some valuable objects and either Loki the trickster or Brock the Dwarve may lose a head.  

Drawn from the Book:

The Children of Odin :

The Book of Northern Myths

By Podraic Colum

With Illustrations By Willy Pogany

1920

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Episode 16 Vasilissa the Fair
In this week's episode we’ll find out why it was so important to always keep a flame a light in your home. And what one brave girl will go through in order to obtain light for her dark world. 

She will face great hardship after losing her mother, travel through a dark dangerous forest, enter the house of a Baba Yaga, live with her and pass her tests all with the help of a special gift given to her by her mother as she lie on her deathbed. 

This weeks Tale : Vassilissa the fair is adapted from the version found in the book :

Russian Fairy Tales a Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-Lore
By W.R.S. Ralston, M.A.,
1873

For you grown ups out there check out the book Women who run with wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

She tells a hauntingly beautiful version of this story and has some fabulous interpretation.  

Also for the younger and the older out there check out a  really great Young adult book:

The House with Chicken Legs, By Sophie Anderson

My daughter and I have been reading it and it’s great .

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This weeks Episode comes from the world of Slavic Lore.

The Death of Koschei the Deathless

as told by Andrew Lang in his 1890 collection of fairy tales:

The Red Fairy Book


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