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East Of The Sun And West Of The Moon | The Lang Fairy Tales: The Blue Fairy Book (1889)
Our tenth Lang Fairy Tale telling is a beloved classic: East of the Sun and West of the Moon, a story with three sets of threes, a giant bear with a waxy shirt, trolls, weddings, a whole load of windy brothers, and a very determined heroine...
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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