For this week, I read the Celtic Fairy Tales Unit. Since much of my family is Irish, it seemed like a fitting choice. When I finished reading the first story Connla and the Fairy Maiden, I was incredibly confused, as I didn’t really understand the point of the story. There didn’t seem to be a moral or a lesson to be learned, so I was a little confused as to what the story was trying to convey.
When I read the tale of The Horned Women, I thought it was incredibly frightening. Again, I’m not really sure what the point of this story was, other than being scary. I found that it was quite bizarre and almost grotesque, which was fascinating but disturbing.
The Shepherd of Myddvai was an interesting tale. I had a bad feeling about things when the maiden said that she would leave him if he struck her three times, but I couldn’t imagine him hurting her after all that he did to win her affections. I was really frustrated by the outcome of the story. By merely tapping her on the shoulder, he lost her, and she went back to the lake. That seems pretty unfair. And then the story ends with her giving her sons healing powers when they’re full grown? That’s just a little random...
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| Illustration by John D. Batten (1892) |
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