The Swan Knight: A Medieval Legend

Ancient Fantasy #5

by Aaron Shepard

When Elsa, daughter of the late duke of Brabant, is accused of murdering her missing brother, no one steps forth to defend her. Then, in answer to her prayers, a shining knight arrives in a boat pulled by a swan. He offers himself as her champion, and as her husband as well, but on one condition: She must never ask his name or where he came from. Retold from the opera "Lohengrin" by Richard Wagner.

25 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 26, 2014

About the author

Aaron Shepard is the author of many books, stories, and scripts for young people, as well as professional books and resources for writers and educators. He has also worked professionally in both storytelling and reader's theater, as a performer, director, and teacher trainer. Aaron's lively and meticulous retellings of folktales and other traditional literature have found homes with more than a dozen children's book publishers, large and small, and with the world's top children's literary magazines, winning him honors from the American Library Association, the New York Public Library, the Bank Street College of Education, the National Council for the Social Studies, and the American Folklore Society. His extensive Web site, visited by thousands of teachers and librarians each week, is known internationally as a prime resource for folktales, storytelling, and reader's theater, while his stories and scripts have been featured in textbooks from publishers worldwide, including Scholastic, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, SRA, The College Board, Pearson Education, National Geographic, Oxford University Press, Barron's, Hodder Education, and McGraw-Hill.

Reviews

[Christine · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Swan Knight was never a favorite of mine, and this is a pretty faithful retelling. It includes a nice afterword with further reading suggests.