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kclane
Registered User
(10/4/01 11:02:35 am)
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need help IDing story
I was looking on the Internet, hoping to locate the title of a "remembered" fairy tale my mother's friend wants to locate, when I came across this discussion board. I hope someone can help me. This is all I have to go on:
A young girl is changed into an old hag (she doesn't remember how or why) and when she meets a young man who is kind to her, she is changed back to a young girl.
She doesn't remember anything about the physical aspects of the book. And that is all she remembers of the story.
This does not sound familiar to me at all, but hopefully it will to someone out there! Thanks for any help/possible leads.
Kristin
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kclane
Registered User
(10/4/01 11:04:35 am)
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Re: need help IDing story
I'm sorry. I was just reading my post and realized I made it sound like the young girl changed into an old hag can't remember! I meant the person asking about the story can't remember that part of the story. Again, sorry.
Kristin
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DonnaQ
Registered User
(10/4/01 12:25:47 pm)
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Here you go...
There are a number of stories that use the loathy hag format. Try looking for "The Marriage of Sir Gawain and the Lady Ragnell."
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Midori
Unregistered User
(10/5/01 4:47:59 am)
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hag to girl
You might also try looking under "Sir Gawain and the Loathsome Lady"..there's a bunch of versions that were done as wonderful picture books for younger readers.
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Laura
McCaffrey
Registered User
(10/5/01 6:18:59 am)
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re: girl to hag
In fact, Chaucer did a telling of this. Was it the Wife of Bath's tale perhaps? One of the women's tales, I'm certain, though I don't have a Chaucer collection on hand. I've also seen versions of it on the web, with Sir Gawain and Lady Ragnalle. Laura Mc
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Laura
McCaffrey
Registered User
(10/5/01 6:20:37 am)
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my last post
Ooops. Sorry for that spelling of Ragnell. For some reason I can't edit my posts. Laura Mc
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Reine Noire
Registered User
(10/9/01 1:18:44 pm)
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Agreement and another thing
Well, that does sound very much like "Gawain and the Loathsome Lady" to me, but it does make me wonder if there are any other versions. I seem to recall a similar Welsh tale that actually involved Arthur and Gwenhwyfar (she was the loathsome lady before he married her or something of that sort).
Chaucer had to have found it somewhere and I'm thinking even the Welsh tale had to have some kind of origin. If could remember the book, I'd definitely set it down here, but I can't recall it for the life of me. It did strike me as interesting, because I had never read of Gwenhwyfar playing that particular role.
~Kavita
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