The Bard’s Tales

The Mabinogion is a collection of Welsh sourced from Welsh manuscripts dated to the 12th and 13th centuries, with the first full collection in English compiled and translated by Lady Charlotte Guest between 1838-1845.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a Chinese occasion celebrating the Moon. These are some of the legends associated with the holiday, featuring characters such as Chang’e, the Jade Rabbit, and Wu Gang. Similar celebrations...

The Homeric Hymn to Demeter is one of 33 poems written in the epic style between the 7th and 5th centuries BCE. It covers the myth of Hades’ abduction of Persephone, and acts as the origin story for the seasons and the...

The Mabinogion is a collection of Welsh tales sourced from Welsh manuscripts dated to the 12th and 13th centuries, with the first full collection in English compiled and translated by Lady Charlotte Guest between...

This story comes from the Gylfaginning, the first book of the Prose Edda written by Snorri Sturluson in the early 13th century. It is a popular Norse Myth as it includes many comedic elements.

The Mabinogion is a collection of Welsh tales sourced from Welsh manuscripts dated to the 12th and 13th centuries, with the first full collection in English compiled and translated by Lady Charlotte Guest between...

The continuation of Lily and the Lion, a German folk tale first collected and published in writing in “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” by the Brothers Grimm in 1812. This story shares the same format as other tales such as East of...

Lily and the Lion, also known as The Lily and The Lion, is a German folk tale first collected and published in writing in “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” by the Brothers Grimm in 1812. This story shares the same format as other...

This story is a German folk tale first collected and published in writing in “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” by the Brothers Grimm in 1812. It shares story elements with the tale of Aladdin from the “1001 Nights” collection.

The final instalment of this Norwegian folk tale, first collected and published by Andrew Lang in his “The Blue Fairy Book” in 1889.

This story, called Thrymskvitha, or the Lay of Thrym, is a well-known Norse myth that can be found in the Poetic Edda. It is thought to be one of the oldest poems in the collection, and is also one of the most...

The continuation of the Norwegian folk tale, first collected and published in writing by Andrew Lang in his “The Blue Fairy Book”

The Faithful Animals is another folktale collected and published by the Brothers Grimm in 1815, but, according to German historian Ferdinand Sievert, was omitted from later versions as the story came from a collection...

East of the Sun, West of the Moon is a Norwegian folk tale, first published in written form in “The Blue Fairy Book”, a collection of Norwegian fairytales written by Andrew Lang in 1889. This story format appears all...

Pyramus and Thisbe is a Greco-Roman myth, first recorded in writing in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in 8 CE. This story will be familiar to most listeners, as it has evolved into one of the most well-known stories of today.