Widdershins Tales

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>This is a story once told to me by a tailor retold as best as I can remember it. Like many before me I found something elusive and compelling between its lines. I pass the tale on to you O reader partly as a way of ridding myself of a persistent obsession with these fables of pagan poets and partly as an act of love. I do hope that it enriches your life as it has done mine.</strong></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Green Booke of Seelie Stories Farfet Fables and </em><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)><em>Widdershins Tales</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> is a collection of fables fairy tales and poems from around the world-beautifully illustrated in striking black and white-reworked for the contemporary reader who enjoys both the music and the history of the written word.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Join Childe Rowland as he endeavors to rescue his sister the Fair Burd Ellen from the Dark Tower at the heart of Ælfland in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Tale of Childe Rowland</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> and enjoy classic tales including </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Heart of an Ape</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Washerman's Donkey</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Hen that Laid the Golden Egg</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Heron and the Fish </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>along the way.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The fair Burd Ellen said the warlock Myrddin was carried away by the fairies for she went 'round the kirk widdershins - the opposite way to the sun. She is now in the castle of the King of Ælfland. It is too bold an undertaking for even the stoutest knight in the land to bring her back.</strong></p>