Major new Wolfe story online

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 07 May 2002, 21:20 · from urth-v0205.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: RE: (urth) Major new Wolfe story online
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 14:20:24 -0700
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> I've seen the "princess on a glass mountain" motif twice before: in a
> novel called THE GLASS MOUNTAIN by Leonard Wolf, which I haven't read,
> and in a Fractured Fairy Tale (in which the rescuer was a giant frog).=20
> Given this, I'd expect that it occurs in some genuine fairy tale or
> medieval romance, but nothing comes to mind.

It appears in a number of places. Here's one version:

http://www.darsie.net/talesofwonder/pgm.html


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