Week 13 Reading notes part b: Celtic Fairy Tales

Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree 

source: celtic fairy tales(1) unit, 
Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten 1892
Image: personal photo of me at WDW in Orlando with Merida

Notes


  • queen names silver-tree and princess named gold-tree 
  • they both went to a glen where there was a well with trout 
  • silver-tree asked the trout if she was the most beautiful queen in the world 
  • he said no gold-tree is 
  • silver-tree was ragging mad
  • she wanted to eat the heart of gold-tree 
  • the king was told that the queen was ill 
  • king asked her what was wrong
  • nothing that gold-trees heart and liver wont fix 
  • about this time a prince had came and asked for gold-trees hand in marriage 
  • the king went hunting and gave the queen the heart and liver of a he-goat
  • the queen ate them and rose well and healthy 
  • a year later the silver-tree went back to the glen and well and asked the tout again
  • shocked by the answer of still her daughter gold-tree 
  • the trout told the queen silver-tree that her daughter was not dead 
  • silver-tree begged the king to see gold-tree and off they went 
  • silver-tree steared the ship to see gold-tee 
  • gold-tree knew that her mother wanted to kill her and told the servants 

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