Overall, this is a wonderful collection of lesser known stories from around the world, though mostly from the Matter of Britain tales and Irish folklore. You wouldn’t say O Brother, Where Art Thou? was a bad film because it was inspired by the The Odyssey. Many regard the Aeneid as a Roman rip-off of the The Odyssey, and while it was certainly inspired by the poem, it is a work of great literature in its own right. We’re briefly told the stories of Orpheus and Gilgamesh, and a great deal of time is spent on Aeneas, the last surviving general of The Trojan War who mythological led to the founding of Rome - which I was happy of, as it isn’t a story that is told often enough. Men forced to risk their life in the land of the dead for knowledge or love. Second on the list to those of Fairie and the Irish Fianna and Knights of the Round Table who slew monsters and defeated evil knights there, were journeys into the Underworld. While the residents of both worlds can interact and produce children, inevitably one was drawn back to their old world, this seems to be a biological phenomena rather than just homesickness. Time moves at a different rate in Fairie.
FABLED LANDS IGG SERIES
A lot of these are Irish tales dealing with the world of Fairie, and if you’ve read other books in this series then you know the differences. The stories contained inside do not really describe other worlds in much detail, and focus mainly on man’s usually accidental dealings with other worlds. Volume 13 of the Enchanted World series is Fabled Lands.
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