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Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
Sprache: Englisch
Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

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The purpose of this volume is to furnish our younger readers of the present generation with a fresh supply of stories—half legend, half fairy-tale—of a kind with which the children of an earlier time were more familiar. Herein you will find 19 illustrated stories from the Rhineland and old Roumania. Stories like: The Jipi The Serpent-Isle Vîrful Cu Dor Furnica The Caraiman The Stags’ Valley The Witch’s Stronghold Piatra Arsa (“The Burnt Rock”) Rîul Doamnei (“The River Of The Princess”) The Cave Of Jalomitza The Nixies’ Cleft The Flying Castle The Silver Nail A Doubting Lover A Legend Of Walpurgis-Night Seekers After Gold The Maiden’s Rock The Water-Snake (Parts I And II) The Little Glass-Man The first ten of these stories are taken from the German of Carmen Sylva, who has kindly given the translator her special permission to add them to the following collection of legends. Many of them are associated with the mountains which surround her home among the pine-woods of Sinaia (Prahova County, Romania); others belong to the districts traversed by the Pelesch (Peleș) river (a tributary of the Prahova River), the merry stream that dashes through the ravine at the foot of her garden, “whispering all sorts of wonders and secrets to those who have ears to hear.” The remaining tales in the volume are collected from different parts of Germany. “The Little Glass-man,” is a legend of the Black Forest, the other stories are all compiled from, or founded upon, legends to be met with in various German collections. So, we invite you to download and read these weird tales from Central and Eastern Europe. Tales which will entertain you for hours. 10% of the net income from the sale of this book will be donated to charities. ========== KEYWORDS/TAGS: Rhineland, Germany, Roumania, HM the Queen, : fairy tales, folklore, myths, legends, children’s stories, children’s stories, bygone era, fairydom, fairy land, classic stories, children’s bedtime stories, happy place, happiness, Jipi, Serpent-Isle, Vîrful Cu Dor, Furnica, Caraiman, Stags Valley, Witchs Stronghold, Piatra Arsa, Burnt Rock, Rîul Doamnei, River Of The Princess, Cave, Jalomitza, Nixies Cleft, Flying Castle, Silver Nail, Doubting Lover, Legend, Walpurgis Night, Seekers After Gold, Maiden’s Rock, Water, Snake, Little, Glass Man, Sinaia, Prahova, Pelesch, river, mountains, București, Transylvania, Wallachia, Braşov, Bucharest, Bucegi Mountains

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Leseprobe

Legends From River and Mountain

Carmen Sylva(H. M. the Queen of Roumania) and Alma Strettell. With Illustrations by T. H. Robinson

Originally Published by

George Allen, London[1896]

Resurrected byAbela Publishing, London[2018]

Legends of River and Mountain

Typographical arrangement of this edition

This book may not be reproduced in its current format in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs, wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system) except as permitted by law without the prior written permission

of the publisher.

Abela Publishing,

London

United Kingdom

ISBN-: 978-X-XXXXXX-XX-X

email:

[email protected]

Website

Abela Publishing

Acknowledgements

Abela Publishing

Thanks

Carmen Sylva (H. M. The Queen of Roumania),

Alma Strettell and T. H. Robinson

for the work they did, compiling, editing and illustrating this work in a time well before electronic media was in use.

10% of the publisher’s profit from the sale of this bookwill be donated to charities.

FROM “THE CAVE OF JALOMITZA.”

But thereupon the horse was changed into a hawk, that shot down from a giddy height, and bore her away in his talons.

Introduction

The first ten of these stories are taken from the German of Carmen Sylva, who has kindly given the translator her special permission to add them to the following collection of legends. The originals are to be found in her charming volumes of Roumanian tales: “Pelesch Märchen” and“Durch die Jahrhunderte.”

Many of them are associated with the mountains which surround her home among the pine-woods of Sinaia; others belong to the districts traversed by the Pelesch river, the merry stream that dashes through the ravine at the foot of her garden, “whispering all sorts of wonders and secrets to those who have ears to hear.”

The remaining tales in the volume are collected from different parts of Germany. “The Little Glass-man,” a legend of the Black Forest, is taken from “Hauff’s Märchen”; the other stories are all compiled from, or founded upon, legends to be met with in various German collections, such as Ziehnert’s, Pröhle’s, &c.[1] Most of them, however, are there set forth in so condensed a form, and with such scanty detail, that they could hardly prove of interest as stories, and therefore, they have in sundry cases been somewhatamplified and developed; or, where there was a resemblance between several legends belonging to different districts, indicating that they had a common source, their varying incidents have been worked into one tale.

It will be seen that the latter part, at least, of this volume makes no claim to be considered as an addition to the serious literature of Folk-lore. Its endeavour is rather to furnish the younger readers of the present generation with a fresh supply of stories—half legend, half fairy-tale—of a kind with which the children of an earlier day were familiar, but which are now less often to be met with; stories which came to them also from foreign lands, and were invested with a charm which it has been vainly sought, as the compiler fears, to impart to the present series.

September 1895.

Footnote

[1] No Rhine legends have been introduced, as they were considered to be already so widely known.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Contents

List Of Illustrations

The Jipi

The Serpent-Isle

Vîrful Cu Dor

Furnica

The Caraiman

The Stags’ Valley

The Witch’s Stronghold

Piatra Arsa (“The Burnt Rock”)

Rîul Doamnei (“The River Of The Princess”)

The Cave Of Jalomitza

The Nixies’ Cleft

The Flying Castle

The Silver Nail

A Doubting Lover

A Legend Of Walpurgis-Night

Seekers After Gold

The Maiden’s Rock

The Water-Snake

The Little Glass-Man

List of Illustrations

FRONTISPIECE

But thereupon the horse was changed into a hawk, that shot down from a giddy height, and bore her away in his talons. (From“The Cave of Jalomitza.”)

THE JIPI

And ere one of them could stretch out a hand she had flown like a bird over the edge of the cliff

THE SERPENT ISLE

So he manned a sail-boat with stout rowers, took provisions with him for several days, and set out across the sea

Presently a little boy ran up to him and cried in pleading tones,“Take me away with thee”

VÎRFUL CU DOR

A little to one side, a handsome shepherd stood leaning upon his staff

From every side came the cry, “Thou goodly youth, be mine! Come with me!”

FURNICA

THE CARAIMAN

But at the sight of them he burst into such laughter——

THE STAGS’ VALLEY

The maiden gazed earnestly at one and another

But the poor mother rose up with fixed gaze, and lifting her arms to the clouds, she cried, “May ye then turn to stone!”

THE WITCH’S STRONGHOLD

“But a while ago a beautiful creature came up our mountain”

With these words she began to scatter down jewels in endless quantities upon the horsemen

PIATRA ARSA

Looking up, they saw that one of the rocky peaks of the Bucegi seemed all aglow

RÎUL DOAMNEI

And behold! the river was no longer brown, but clear and blue as the air

THE CAVE OF JALOMITZA

Jalomitza followed it the whole night through, without knowing whither she went

THE NIXIES’ CLEFT

THE FLYING CASTLE

For the first time her heart sank, and she almost turned back

THE SILVER NAIL

And declaring that he would have no more gaping fools in his house, disturbing his honeymoon, he drove the neighbours forth

A DOUBTING LOVER

Yet even now she would sometimes draw aside from her young companions, as they paced the gardens or terrace together

A LEGEND OF WALPURGIS-NIGHT

The company was arriving in great numbers

But in a moment the tables were turned, and he found himself in an unexpected position

SEEKERS AFTER GOLD

THE MAIDEN’S ROCK

And in the twinkling of an eye had rushed like a storm up the rocky ascent, and fallen upon the luckless lovers

THE WATER-SNAKE

THE LITTLE GLASS-MAN. PART I

THE LITTLE GLASS-MAN. PART II

He lifted it from the jar, tore open Peter’s jerkin, pulled the stone from his breast, and held it before him

The Jipi

There is in Roumania a group of mountains named the Bucegi-group. Among these the two peaks of Jipi tower aloft, close together, as though gazingdefiantly at one another, and between them the Urlatoare, or“roaring stream,” dashes down, a cloud-like waterfall, into the valley below, and storms onward over every barrier towards the town of Prahova.

They say that long, long ago the Jipi were twin-brothers, who loved each other so well that one could not live without the other, or eat a mouthful of bread the other did not share; nay, more—that when one was asked a question, the other answered it, and that when one did himself some hurt, the other wept and would not be comforted. They were as fair as morning and evening, as slender and straight as lances, as swift as arrows, as strong as young bears. The mother who had borne them looked upon them with pride and joy, and would say, as she stroked their curly heads, “Andrei and Mirea, my beautiful sons, may your fame become so great that even the stones shall discourse of it.”

They were of noble blood, and dwelt in a castle upon a lofty crag, where they lorded it as though the whole world belonged to them. They often jestingly declared that they should have to wed one wife only between them, since they were sure never to find two quite alike, and that the best plan would be for them never to wed at all. But of this their mother would not hear, for she longed to cradle her sons’ sons upon her knee and sing them lullabies.

She would often sing the ancient lays of their country to her boys, of an evening, while she sat spinning and the noble lads hung fondly about her. Andrei would kneel at her feet, while Mirea leant upon the arm of her chair, and drew in the sweet scent of the heavy, dark braids that shone lustrous through her delicate white veil.

“Our mother is still quite a young woman,” said Andrei.

“Yes, indeed,” cried Mirea; “she has not yet a single grey hair.”

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