Rip Van Winkle
Rip Van Winkle is always ready to help his neighbours, but he avoids working on his own farm. One afternoon, he takes his dog into the Catskill Mountains. There he meets a group of strangely dressed men and secretly tastes their drink. When he wakes up, his village seems completely different. How long has he been asleep? Washington Irving’s story follows Rip as he tries to find out.
Content warning: This story contains frightening ghosts, family quarrels, drinking alcohol, a suggestion of suicide and a violent death.
By Woden, God of Saxons,
From whose name comes Wednesday, that is Woden’s day.whence comes Wensday, that is Wodensday.Explanation: Woden is the Old English name of the god Odin. Wednesday takes its name from “Woden’s day”. The epigraph promises to tell the truth; that promise plays against the tale’s comic claims of reliable evidence.
Truth is a thing that I will alwaysever I will keep
Until that day whenUnto thylke day in which I creep into
My tombsepulchre——
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