Season 2. Episode 10. Fairy Tale Time! A reading of "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" with special guest Katherine Talian

The Storied Human (What is your Story?)

What a story this is! A young woman is traded for riches by her family (she does consent, but under pressure), and rides off on a large white bear to a castle far away. During her tenure there, a mysterious visitor joins her at night to sleep at her side. Growing lonely at the castle, she asks her host if she might visit her family. While there, she breaks an oath she made to the bear about speaking in private with her mother (a no-no in fairy tales, you have to follow seemingly trivial instructions exactly or pay the consequences).
There are terrible consequences and she loses everything and her bear (prince in disguise) must travel far away --East of the Sun and West of the Moon -- to marry a troll princess!
But our plucky heroine does not let this stop her, she find away to travel to "the end of the world" to rescue her prince! Together they devise a plan to trick the trolls and are freed from their grasp. They are in love of course, and everything works out.
I admire that this story features a tenacious and brave heroine who saves her man!
Katherine and I used to read this together, the scope of it, the beautiful artwork, and the amazing journey captivated us. We hope you enjoy it too. And remember, some things are worth travelling very far for!
Music featured in this episode:
"Fairy Tale" and "Bard's Travel's" from Pond 5 (licensed copy owned by me)
p.s. The troll princess has a nose "3 ells long" -- What is an ell?
The Viking ell was the measure from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, about 18 inches (460 mm). The Viking or primitive ell was used in Iceland up to the 13th century. By the 13th century, a law set the "stika" as equal to 2 ells which was the English ell of the time.
So her nose was 4.5 feet long!!!

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Original music "Saturday Sway" by Brendan Talian