Isabel Wyatt was born in England in 1901. She spent many years teaching young children and was then, until her retirement in 1965, co-director of studies at Hawkwood College in Gloucestershire. She compiled many books for children, including The Seven-Year-Old Wonder Book, The Eight-Year-Old Legend Book, Homer's Odyssey, King Beetle-Tamer and The Book of Fairy Princes. She died in 1992.
"The eight stories in this collection are beautifully retold by
Isabel Wyatt
These stories will keep your children spellbound,
give them mighty adventures to act out and provide soul food for
the adults with their eternal truths and inspiring bravery
I am
very pleased that these tales are once more available for a new
generation of readers."
--Anna Phillips, New View, Autumn 2010.
'With engaging style, the daily life and culture of the Norsemen
are reflected within stories, and all the drama of the conflicts
and passions are well told. The gods are mentioned in passing as
the deities for respecting, but not for interference in the daily
lives of mortal man. This results in a different flavour and
understanding of the Norsemen's culture with tales of heroes to
admire, villains to fear, teales of love and daring, power and
cunning
The stories are broken into episodes, and so useful for
reading aloud, as well as personal reading.'
-- School Librarian
'The world of the Norsemen was rich in poetry, legend and song.
Whenever there was a feast to greet guests, to celebrate weddings
or the safe return of voyagers, the bards were called upon to tell
stroies and sing songs
The stories in this book, retold by
storyteller Isabel Wyatt, are drawn from the collection of tales
compiled of 13th-century Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus and
other early Scandinavian writers.'
--Human Givens, 2010
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