Since ancient times, before writing appeared, people told each other stories. Stories were different: frightening and funny, instructive and cautionary. Those that mothers whispered to infants, and those that echoed in a noisy tavern over a mug of strong ale.
Every people had their own fairy tales and legends, anecdotes and parables, myths and legends. Over the centuries they found their way onto book pages—and now, once again, they will sound from the mouths of readers in the literary audio project «Depth».
Settle by our hearth—we’ll tell you about long-ago deeds, about glorious deeds…
Contents:
01. Yuri Petukhov - Long, long ago (how a fairy tale is born) (read by Vladimir Knyazev)
02. Ancient Scandinavian poem - Sayings of the High One (read by Roman Volkov)
03. Scottish legend - The Legend of Macbeth (read by Vladimir Ovuor)
04. Irish legend - A Bad Place (read by Roman Pankov)
05. Scottish fairy tale - The Brave Hunter Finlay (read by Vladimir Kovalenko)
06. The Brothers Grimm - The Pied Piper of Hamelin (read by Pavel Lomakin)
07. Konstantin Sitnikov - Vuver (read by Oleg Buldakov)
08. Legends and myths of the Maya peoples (read by Alexey Dik)
09. Georgian folk epic - The Tale of Arsene (read by Alexander Stepnoy)
10. Ryunosuke Akutagawa - Susanoo-no-mikoto on the slope of years (read by Yuri Gurzhi)