Samuel Peterson’s Reviews > Celtic Tales: Fairy Tales and Stories of Enchantment from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales > Status Update

A sword's name is Sickersnapper? Sounds like a Lewis Carrol name.

I figured that Princess Gemdelovdly would be the next on the sacrificial offering. Just like in Perseus. The movie version, not the original story.

"'The poor bairn's mad.'"
Hey, I know that word! It's Norwegian in origin, meaning "child."

"For the sorcerer said that the only way to satisfy the monster was to feed it every Saturday with seven young maidens, the fairest could be found." Sounds like a harkening back to Greek mythology with the stories of Theseus and Perseus.

Mester Stoorworm sounds like "Mister Stormworm," which is a funny name for a sea serpent.

"In the far bygone days, in the north of Scotland, there lived a well-to-do farmer who had seven sons. And the youngest of them bore a very curious name: people called him Assipattle, which means 'he who grovels among the ashes.'" Another Cinderella-type story judging by the name. Also, I think it's pronounced "Ash-ì-pattle" if ash is the root word, but I don't know.

That ends the first section of the book. The next is stories about the sea, with the first story called "Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm." From the looks of the picture, it's involving a sea serpent. The origin of this story, like the last one, comes from Scotland, which explains the names. Lol

I guess the moral of the story is that if your wife is a witch or likes to hang out with her friends, let her, and don't be jealous.

And as soon as the husband learns the words and sneaks into the wine cellar and drinks till he's asleep, the wife leaves him there. Yeah, these two are made for each other lol.

So, the man's husband is witch who is able to travel long distances, learn magic words, and dance and party with magical creatures. But as soon as the husband learns that her magic words could carry him to a lord's wine cellar, he wants to learn that knowledge and do it himself. And the wife says, "no you can't, because you might spread that knowledge around and then everyone would do it." That doesn't seem fair.