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![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} clare_dragonfly wroteon June 26th, 2008 at 09:46 pm |
Book Review: The Welsh Fairy Book
The Welsh Fairy Book by W. Jenkyn Thomas
Exhibit A: My love of all things Welsh.
Exhibit B: My obsession with faeries, fairy tales, and folklore in general.
Exhibit C: The title of this book.
The defense rests.
More seriously, this is a fantastic collection. There's a wide variety of fairy tales in it--mostly featuring actual faeries--and I felt that it gave me a really good feeling for Welsh folklore in 1907 (when the book was first compiled). One can't really judge on the literary merit of folktales, but they're well-told, and most are entertaining and intriguing. A few had unexpected similarities to folktales of other cultures that I've encountered, and I would be interested to find out where these tropes originated (if it can be pinned down) and how they passed from one to the other.
Exhibit A: My love of all things Welsh.
Exhibit B: My obsession with faeries, fairy tales, and folklore in general.
Exhibit C: The title of this book.
The defense rests.
More seriously, this is a fantastic collection. There's a wide variety of fairy tales in it--mostly featuring actual faeries--and I felt that it gave me a really good feeling for Welsh folklore in 1907 (when the book was first compiled). One can't really judge on the literary merit of folktales, but they're well-told, and most are entertaining and intriguing. A few had unexpected similarities to folktales of other cultures that I've encountered, and I would be interested to find out where these tropes originated (if it can be pinned down) and how they passed from one to the other.
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