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The Red Etin | The Lang Fairy Tales: The Blue Fairy Book (1889)
Brace yourself for one of the Lang's dialect stories from north of Hadrian's Wall: The Red Etin!
Though the Etin itself is Irish, strangely.
Still, thank goodness for another Youngest Son who isn't a total fool.
Also, fix your buckets everybody!
If you are unfamiliar with the Lang Fairy Tales, these seminal collections were assembled between 1889 and 1913 by a married couple, folklorists and translators Nora and Andrew Lang, with most of the work done to compile them completed by Nora, also known as Leonora Blanche Alleyne.
Assembled and published in 12 colour-coded "Fairy Books," the corpus…
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