Tupien perustajia?

Niinpä, eräs LJ-kaverini kirjoitti näin nettipäiviksessään. Tarkkaavainen nainen:

I found this description of a children's book at http://www.marysmoffat.co.uk/bibliography/tosix/anglo.htm .



The Riddle Girl, An Anglo-Saxon Story, Sheila Lane, Anglia Young Books, 1996, £4.25, 58 pages. ISBN 1-871173-55-8

This story is about 10,000 words long. It is for children of 7-11.

Alda and her parents are churls living in the forest and struggling to survive. Last winter her brother Alfric had been sold to the thane chief for forty shillings, and with the money her father had bought some flour, a goat and a small herd of pigs.

It is Alda's job to look after the pigs. Then the chief thanes's son Wulfwin, and some of his friends drive off the pigs. Without these pigs Alda and her parents will starve.

But Lord Godric is known to be a fair man and so the little family go to Godric's stockade - despite the fact that they are not meant to be there at night. They have trouble from Wulfwin but eventually they are brought before Godric who listens to them.

A rather unusual agreement is made. They can have their pigs back if Alda can make up a riddle and none of Godric's household can guess what it is. She is given a night to make up her riddle. Can this simple girl from the forest do it?

This story brings out the contrast between the lives of the rich and the poor in Anglo-Saxon times but the riddle aspect should really catch the imagination of many children. They will really enjoy trying to make up their own riddles.



Yeah. See what I mean? Kinda creepy.

BTW, how did Salazar Slytherin gain a Portuguese name? Unless JKR was just cranky about her ex.

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