书名：Stories from Scotland苏格兰故事集
读者对象：9-11岁
作者：Barbara Ker Wilson
出版社名称：OUP Oxford
出版时间：2013
语种：英文
ISBN：9780192736628
商品尺寸：14 x 1.5 x 18.6 cm
包装：平装
页数：240
“牛津儿童神话故事与传说”收录了具有悠久历史，通过复述被代代相传的经典故事合集。英雄、恶棍、巫师、勇士、皇室……各种各样的角色演绎着不同的冒险故事，让读者如同身临其境，感受正义与邪恶的较量，从中获得人生的启迪。
在苏格兰，无论是高地、岛屿，还是边境国家，都流传着各式各样经典的故事。从骑士到海豹，Stories from Scotland《苏格兰故事》将为读者带来苏格兰充满冒险与幽默的童话和故事。
Oxford Children's Myths and Legends bring you the greatest stories ever told, from around the world and long ago. Heroes and villains, witches and wizards, warriors and royalty - there's something here for everyone.
From the Highlands and islands, to the Border country, there are stories from all over Scotland in this wonderful collection. You'll find tales of Tam Lin the elfin knight, MacCodrum of the Seals and many more - all told with a thrilling sense of adventure and fun.
牛津大学出版社始创于15世纪末，是牛津大学的一个部门。牛津大学的目标直指研究、学术和教育的高水准，出版社则通过在全世界开展出版活动来推动这一宗旨的实施。五百多年来，牛津大学出版社通过高质量的研究与出版活动，已发展成每年在50多个国家出版4500多种新书的世界数一数二的大学出版社。
Oxford University Press (OUP)is the largest university press in the world, and the second-oldest, after Cambridge University Press. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide.
Before the first sailors turned the prows of their ships seawards to discover what lay beyond their own homelands, the King and Queen of the sea dwelt below the waves in peace and happiness. They had many lovely sea- children, brown-eyed and straight of limb, who spent the live- long day playing with the wild sea-horses and swimming through the groves of purple sea-anemones that grow on the ocean bed. They loved to make music, these fabulous people who lived in the sea, and wherever they went there was a sound of singing like the laughing of the waves.
But one day a great sadness came to the King of the sea and his carefree children, for the Queen, their mother, fell ill and died, and was buried with much sorrowing among the coral caves of their kingdom. And when she had gone, there was no one to look after the sea-children, to comb their beautiful hair and lull them to sleep with soft sea-music. The King saw their uncombed hair that hung like the matted seaweed, and he heard them tossing restlessly at night when they could not get to sleep; and he thought to himself that he should find a new wife to take care of his children.
Now in the dark sea-forest there lived a strange sea-witch, and it was she whom the King asked to be his new wife, although he felt no love for her, for his heart was buried in the coral caves where his dead Queen lay. The sea-witch thought that it would be a fine thing to be Queen of the sea and rule over such a vast kingdom; and so she consented to marry the King, and became the stepmother of the sea-children. But she was a bad stepmother, for when she saw the brown eyes and straight limbs of the sea-children, she was jealous of their beauty, and resentful that anyone more lovely to look upon than herself should dwell in the sea.
One day she went back to her dark sea-forest and picked the evil yellow berries of the sea-grape that grew there. From these she distilled a magic potion, and wished a cruel enchantment upon the sea-children. She wished that they should lose their straight-limbed bodies and be changed into seals. As seals, she wished that they should swim through the sea for ever, except for one day each year, when they could regain their own shapes from sundown to sundown.
