The Dragon Of The North

Name: The Dragon Of The North
Brand: Ascent Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Andrew Lang
ISBN: 9781469085241

Author: Andrew Lang

Narrator: Karen White

Unabridged: 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 08/03/2012

Categories: Fiction, Fairy Tales & Legends

Synopsis

The Dragon of the North is an Estonian fairy tale of a terrible dragon who devoured all in his path on his way from the north. One brave man sets out to find a way to conquer him and protect the people of his home. The man consults a magician, who tells him to seek the aid of birds. With the help of the birds, he discovers a witch-maiden who can help him, but whom he mistakenly crosses. The young man must then deal with the consequences of his actions.

Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scottish writer who collected fairy and folk tales from various cultures and put them together in twelve volumes of tales. He was noted for taking the tales from as many original sources as possible, keeping the fairy tales close to their intended meanings.

About Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang (1844â€“1912), Scottish man of letters educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St. Andrews, and Balliol College, Oxford, became a prolific and versatile London journalist. He took a leading part in the controversy with Max MÃ¼ller and his school about the interpretation of mythology and folk tales. He published several volumes of verse and several solid contributions to the study of the philosophy and religion of primitive man. He also wrote the four-volume History of Scotland, A History of English Literature, and many fairy-tale collections, as well as works on Homer, Joan of Arc, Scott, Lockhart, Mary Stuart, John Knox, Prince Charlie, Tennyson, and others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by chickienuggies™

We have an oversized gremlin frog that really hooked me into the story, but didn’t even appear until later, and just DIED without displaying more froggy traits and behaviours 😞. Look, I know that it was a threat to every living thing, but it still deserved better than that. Nevertheless, I do love t......more

Goodreads review by Demir

Pretty straightforward. Don't try to hustle witches, I guess.........more

Goodreads review by Vladimir (mecha_yota)

The first part of the story was quite alright. We got a standard fairy-tale pack: 1) some kind of problem, that had to be overcome; 2) a tool, that could be used for the problem-solving; 3) a main character, who was set on the quest of obtaining said item; 4) some secondary characters, that helped t......more

Goodreads review by M.M. Strawberry

(Included in the Yellow Fairy Book) The hero of the story really would not have been a hero if not for the IMMENSE amount of help that he got along the journey, although I don't blame the witch-maid for being pissed off at him.......more