Week Four - #2

I have been finishing up my Scottish mythology books this semester after reading about half of six books about it last semester. Coincidentally, while reading this week I found the perfect fairy queen story. It was really hard to simply Google details about the fairy queen and I was glad I organically found a story because the personalities of the fairies really come through in the retelling. After finding this story I decided that I want to integrate this text into my art because of my project proposal where I pitched the idea of both a textual and visual representation of historical information.

The story I am talking about is known as “Thomas Rhymer” or “True Thomas”. It’s about a flute player who stumbles across the fairy queen in the woods. She proceeds to take him back to a fairy land within a mound and he plays music for her courtly society. He leaves fairy land after agreeing to come back at the fairy queen’s request one day and she gives him a magical apple that instills magical powers in him. He ultimately uses his powerful knowledge and powers to save the town he lives in just in time for his fairy queen to call him to return to fairy land. After that he was never seen again and lived happily with his queen.