![]() She's trapped in the lake by Morgan Le Fay, causing Ethan, the husband, to think she left him. The woman turns out to be Vivienne, the Lady of the Lake, and Arthur's aunt. In this story, the girls are the daughter of a self-made Count, who met their mother near a lake in the forest. This was an interesting retelling of the Grimm Brothers' The Twelve Dancing Princesses, which took the original fairy tale and combined it with Arthurian legend, making the boy who figures out the mystery behind the girls' worn out shoes one of Arthur's Knights of the Round Table. And that's one of the main reasons I read fairy tales/retellings. The ending of Night Dance made me really happy. Why wouldn't the father himself just spend the night in the bedroom and figure it out? Or have one of his female servants do it? But that might have been from the original fairy tale itself and not the fault of this author. The winner of the contest got to choose one of the sisters to marry. The father held a contest to have young men spend the night practically in the sisters' bedroom to find out how they were escaping at night, even though he was concerned about the men making advances on the girls. ![]() The nice surprise of this book is that the author mixed Arthurian legend in with this tale. ![]() ![]() So after reading this and that, I've been able to figure out a bit more of the tale just by comparing common elements. One of my favorite books,, is based on this tale. I still haven't gotten around to reading the actual "Twelve Dancing Princesses" fairy tale. ![]()
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