Northumberland Folk Tales by Rosalind Kerven
This delightful and short collection has tales from Northumbria, the region of England north of the Umber River and south of Scotland. The tales have many familiar elements--dragons, knights, witches, royalty (both human and fairy), ghosts, and so on. A couple of the stories had so many familiar motifs that they read like I had read them before. The collection is engaging and well-written. The author adapted the stories from other sources of regional folklore and does a great job with them.
When I went to put it on my shelf, I saw I did read a collection from Rosalind Kerven before!
Recommended.
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