The Junior Classics Volume 2: Folk Tales & Myths


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Compilation of tales designed and arranged for young people. This volume covers tales from the North, the Rhine, Greece and Rome, tales from the Hudson River, and animal stories. - Summary by DrPGould

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Chapter 1, Stories from the Northern Sagas, Part 1, The Northmen's Story of How all Things Began 14:34 Read by Foon
Chapter 1, Stories from the Northern Sagas, Part 2 How the Queen of the Sky Gave Gifts to Men 6:39 Read by Foon
Chapter 1, Stories from the Northern Sagas, Part 3 The Dwarfs and the Fairies 8:59 Read by Foon
Chapter 1, Stories from the Northern Sagas Part 4, How Thor Went to Jotunheim 24:12 Read by Foon
Chapter 1, Stories from the Northern Sagas, Part 5, How Thor's Hammer was Lost and Found 19:22 Read by Foon
Chapter 1, Stories from the Northern Sagas, Part 6, Iduna's Apples of Youth 34:20 Read by Foon
Chapter 1, Stories from the Northern Sagas, Part 7 How the Fenris Wold was Chained 12:37 Read by Foon
Chapter 1, Stories from the Northern Sagas, Part 8 The Story of Balder the Beautiful 16:49 Read by Foon
Chapter 1, Stories from the Northern Sagas Part 9 The Wonderful Quern Stones 12:56 Read by Foon
Chapter 2 The Story of Brunhilda and Siegfried, Part 1 Brunhilda and the Magic Sword 12:40 Read by HarmonicPearl
Chapter 2 The Story of Brunhilda and Siegfried, Part 2 Brunhilda's Sleep Guarded by Loki's Fiery Arm 12:21 Read by HarmonicPearl
Chapter 2 The Story of Brunhilda and Siegfried, Part 3 How Siegfried Killed the Dragon 27:14 Read by HarmonicPearl
Chapter 2 The Story of Brunhilda and Siegfried, Part 4 How Siegfried Finds Brunhilda 11:51 Read by HarmonicPearl
Chapter 3 The Story of Lohengrin Part 1 The Plot Against the Beautiful Elsa of Brabant 11:31 Read by mparker
Chapter 3 The Story of Lohengrin Part 2 The Knights of the Holy Grail 4:51 Read by mparker
Chapter 3 The Story of Lohengrin Part 3 Lohengrin the Champion of Elsa of Brabant 13:52 Read by mparker
Chapter 3 The Story of Lohengrin Part 4 Ortruda Plots for Revenge 5:34 Read by mparker
Chapter 3 The Story of Lohengrin Part 5 the Departure of Lohengrin 14:00 Read by mparker
Chapter 3 The Story of Lohengrin Part 6 the Wooing of the Daughter of the King of Ireland 15:28 Read by mparker
Chapter 4 Three Tales of the Rhine Part 1 The Lady of Kynast 4:56 Read by Foon
Chapter 4 Three Tales of the Rhine Part 2 The Guardian Angel 4:02 Read by Foon
Chapter 4 Three Tales of the Rhine Part 3 The Giant Who Laughed at a Dwarf 2:23 Read by Foon
Chapter 5 The Legend of St. Christopher 15:50 Read by AnnaLisa Bodtker
Chapter 6 Prince Ivan and the Gray Wolf 27:51 Read by Michael Robinson
Chapter 7 King Robert of Sicily 17:40 Read by pmstrahm
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 1 The Riddle of the Sphinx 42:19 Read by Eva Staes
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 2 The Gift of Athene 7:54 Read by pmstrahm
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 3 Daphne, Child of the Morning 4:10 Read by pmstrahm
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 4 The Vengeance of Apollo 11:57 Read by pmstrahm
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 5 The Story of Arion 12:56 Read by pmstrahm
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 6 The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice 11:30 Read by pmstrahm
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 7 Orpheus the Sweet Singer 7:53 Read by Eva Staes
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 8 Niobe, a Victim of Latona's Jealousy 9:53 Read by Mayah
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 9 The Sad Story of Pyramus and Thisbe 8:04 Read by Mayah
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 10 The Twelve Labors of Hercules 10:08 Read by Eva Staes
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 11 Hercules's Search for the Apples of Hesperides 43:15 Read by Eva Staes
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 12 The Story of Cupid and Psyche 22:02 Read by Eva Staes
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 13 How Phaeton Drove the Sun 15:41 Read by ceekay
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 14 Baucis and Philemon Changed into Two Trees 6:25 Read by ceekay
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 15 The Paradise of Children 33:18 Read by Michael Robinson
Chapter 9 Tales of the Hudson Part 1 Rip Van Winkle 37:59 Read by Larry Wilson
Chapter 9 Two Tales of the Hudson Part 2 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 42:56 Read by Larry Wilson
Chapter 9 Two Tales of the Hudson Part 2 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (continued) 29:28 Read by Larry Wilson
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 1 the Hare who thought the World had come to an End 6:26 Read by Nemo
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 2 the Watering of the Saplings 2:26 Read by Nemo
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 3 The Old Hare and the Elephants 3:54 Read by Nemo
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 4 The Elephant has a Bet with the Tiger 10:40 Read by Nemo
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 5 How the Tortoise Out-Ran the Deer 5:15 Read by Nemo
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 6 Which was the Stronger, the Tortoise, The Tapir, or the Whale? 4:23 Read by Nemo
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 7 How the Turtle Got his Shell 8:01 Read by Nemo
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 8 The Legend of Rata 9:14 Read by Nemo
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 9 Why the Hippopotamus Lives in the Water 3:52 Read by Nemo
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 10 Why the Elephant has small Eyes 5:47 Read by Nemo
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 11 The Boy who set a Snare for the Sun 11:18 Read by Ali Medved
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 12 The Bird Lover 21:40 Read by pmstrahm
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 13 Wunzh, the Father of Indian Corn 12:25 Read by ceekay
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 14 When Brer Wolf have his Corn Shucking 6:26 Read by Jyothi
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 15 Brer Rabbit's Cool Air Swing 5:36 Read by Michael Robinson
Chapter 11 Three Stories of the Seasons Part 1 The Four Seasons 13:13 Read by Tatry1763
Chapter 11 Three Stories of the Seasons Part 2 The Three Lemons 20:04 Read by rona890
Chapter 11 Three Stories of the Seasons Part 3 The Winter-Spirit and His Visitor 5:51 Read by Ali Medved