The tale in itself doesn’t have much too it and there’s actually not a lot of the three kings in it (one seems to be focused on) and but it’s such a fascinating tale for its time and the tailor definitely had a right to be shaking in his boots. It isn’t often I read intros but I did this time and I enjoyed it and I liked reading the information about the abbey afterwards. A chilling medieval ghost story, first written by. Imagine all the religious text they had to copy and then suddenly ‘oh by the way copy down this really odd ghost story, kthxbye.’Īnyway, Dan Jones does a great job of presenting this. Buy Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings: A medieval ghost story by Dan Jones online at Shulph Ink. I think the best part about this is the era it was written, how something like a simply creepy ghost story was being written down by at an abbey. Douce 302 in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and its authorship is sometimes attributed to a Shropshire priest, John Audelay. A mini review for a mini book, the tale itself is only 70-ish pages. The Three Dead Kings ( Latin: De tribus regibus mortuis) is a 15th-century Middle English poem. His journey is interrupted when he is knocked off his horse by a raven which then becomes a dog and sets him a challenge. One winter, in the dark days of King Richard II, a tailor was riding home on the road from Gilling to Ampleforth. The story is about a tailor, Snowball, who is travelling home between Gilling and Ampleforth on a dark and cold night.
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