North Yorkshire Folk Tales (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
Here are a selection, starting with one of the oldest. RAGNAR LODBROK AND THE FOUNDING OF YORK There was a man living in Denmark called Ragnar. He was big and strong, a great warrior. There was a powerful king of Denmark called Herrud who had a very beautiful daughter called Thora Fortress-Hart. One day Herrud gave his daughter a little jewelled snake. He used to give her a present every day because he loved her so much. He had made her a beautiful bower to live in surrounded by a fence. Thora liked the snake and put it in a small box on top of a piece of gold. Next day both the snake and the gold had grown a little; a month later, the snake and the gold had grown a great deal. Soon the snake was too big for the box but curled around it. It went on growing. Eventually it grew so large that it was too big for the bower and it lay encircling it, with its tail in its mouth. The pile of gold on which it slept was huge. Now it became very difficult to deal with as it ate an ox a day and threatened harm to anyone who wanted to go into the bower, except for Thora.
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