We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. There is a genuine attempt at real storytelling which seems to be lacking in straight translations, making them a living and breathing thing once more as they would have been when originally written.

The stories that began each chapter were beautifully written and deeply moving, especially the first one on the plight of Hos, and I loved how Amy Jeffs took elements of several different medieval stories and joined them together to draw out themes and to bring the protagonists to life.

Similarly, the contemporary climate crisis echoes the experience of Lindisfarne before the Vikings invaded. Illustrated with original wood engravings, evoking an atmospheric world of whales, wolves, caves, cuckoos and reeds, Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain will leave readers feeling ‘we stendream’: delight in the wilderness.

Illustrated with original wood engravings, evoking an atmospheric world of whales, wolves, caves, cuckoos and reeds, Tales From Early Medieval Britain will leave readers feeling 'we stendream': delight in the wilderness. Helpful commentaries elucidate on meanings and how the old poetry sheds light on a rich artistic culture in Medieval Britain, the medieval perspectives and understandings reflecting how they perceived the world they inhabit.

Reading Wild feels like being led by the hand through a gnarled, old growth forest, along empty shoreflats, and along the edge of windswept cliffs – and shown how to experience them through medieval eyes.

As with Storyland Wood engravings (the authors own) imbue chapters with a haunting gothic edge; the silhouette of leafless trees, hunched figures in empty spaces, bursts of white life amidst the darkness.De har absolut beröringspunkter, men där Robertson vill skapa nya folksagor vill Amy Jeffs ge liv åt de gamla och återinföra deras relevans för en modern läsare - i detta är hon mycket framgångsrik. Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous clouds, icy waves, whales with mountains on their backs, sleet, bitter winds, bleak, impenetrable marshes, howling wolves, forests, the unceasing cries of birds and the death grip of subterranean vaults that have never seen the sun: these are wild landscapes of a world almost familiar. For me this gives the poems and tales far more immediacy and a way to relate to them more than reading a translation, no matter how good.