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The Nightingale, the Valkyrie and Raven
George Henry Borrow
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But ah! my step-dame all o’erturn’d,
She vowed our marriage ne’er should be.
“She changed me to a Nightingale,
Bade me around the world to fly;
My Brother she changed to a wolf so gray,
Bade him into the forest hie.
“She told him, as the wood he sought,
That he should win his shape no more,
’Till he had drunk her heart’s blood out,
And that befell when years were o’er.
“It happened on a summer tide,
Amidst the wood she wandered gay,
My brother saw and watched her close,
From ’neath the bushes where he lay.
“He seized her quickly by the foot,
All with his laidly wolfish claw;
Tore out her heart, and drank her blood,
And thus released himself he saw.
p. 8“Yet I am still a little bird. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
This book was great, I would love to see it made into a movie. It was like reading the plot of a great Kung Fu movie, with a touch of "Memoirs of a Geisha" and some magic thrown in. I will eagerly read the next book.
Muy ameno, me ha gustado. Es de cocción lenta y trata básicamente de como llevar a cabo una venganza en busca de justicia hacia su pueblo, familia y "señor"
Es una novela ambientada en Japón pero con unos toques sobrenaturales, o capacidades especiales, de nuestro protagonista el cual pertenece a una
A fascinating story with riveting characters caught in an intricate web of revenge, romance and betrayal set in feudal Japan. To any who are interested in the Asian culture with its beguiling history and elaborate sense of mystery that is oft knotted in its roots, this book would be the ideal soluti
This is the second time I've read this book, but the first time I've read it in English, its original version.
The setting is a fictional feudal Japan. There used to be magic in this world but most of it is gone by now. In addition to that, there is a rivalry between two religions, one of which subse
This is a light Feudal Japanese fantasy that focuses heavily on growing up to be an assassin, trembling with desire and love, and reveals that drive the main character to dire measures.
Does most of this sound familiar in YA fiction? It should. :)
Fortunately, I enjoy light Feudal Japanese fantasies..
1 1/2
In my review for Graceling I stated that I was a bit of a sucker for romance elements in action type stories. I have, in the past, admitted to, probably, over-rating certain books because the romance element gave me the warm-squishies, even though other aspects of the book were lacking or, at t
_Across the nightingale floor_
So i decided to share my personal story with this book.. I was about 15-16 years old and a classmate, a good friend of mine had lent me this book. I read it, i loved it and then my brain completely erased all the data i had on the book. I mean, literally, i remembered n
This is a weird book for anyone who has more than a passing knowledge of Japan.
The author is a great fan of Japan, its culture and its history. That's obvious just by looking at her name, Lian Hearn, which is a pseudonym. According to Wikipedia, it's a contraction of "heron," an important bird in th