Childrens Classics PDF EPUB Audio

Stories from the Ballads, Told to the Children

Downloads: Under 100
Pages: 56

Download

Listen to Stories from the Ballads, Told to the Children Audiobook Free

Read by Davehli, geeowlfairy, Faithann Gibson and others · 2 h · 7 parts

The Young Tamlane
13:21
Hynde Etin
14:33
Hynde Horn
17:33
Thomas the Rhymer
19:37
Lizzie Lindsay
23:01
The Gay Goshawk
19:40
The Laird o'Logie
12:56

This audiobook recording is in the public domain.

The audio edition streams in the page. There is no audio file to download.

Browse all free audiobooks

About this book

Janet crosses Carterhaugh by moonlight despite her father's warning, then meets a small elfin knight beside a rose-tree. Mary Macgregor retells old English and Scots ballads as stories for children, bringing their fairy encounters into prose. The opening tale follows Tamlane, carried away to Fairyland as a boy, and Janet, who refuses to accept that the enchanted plain is forbidden to her.

The contents name seven stories, including Hynde Horn, Lizzie Lindsay and Thomas the Rhymer. In Thomas's tale, the Queen of Elfland takes him beneath the Eildon hills and warns him against speaking in her country. Three roads, each with a different destination, give the adventure a moral dimension. Castles, moonlit moors and conversations with fairy rulers give younger readers a way into these older tales, presenting ballad figures through connected narrative scenes.