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Hellalyle and Hildebrand
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Frederick Burton's painting, "The Meeting on the Turret Stair" 1864, hanging in the National Gallery of Ireland is a stunning artwork capturing a simple and yet divinely beautiful romantic moment in time.
The work was inspired from a translation of the Danish ballad Hellalyle and Hildebrand, translated by Whitely Stokes in 1855, a writer who was a close friend of the artist Fredrick Burton.
The Ballad held great appeal for Tagai Tarutin, who, over a five-year period has crafted the it into one of the most magical, beautiful stories of romance, bravery, tragedy and wonderment in Hellalyle and Hildebrand.
Set around 1288 Hellalyle is a young woman, beloved of all who know and meet her. She is of great beauty, a pure heart and is watched over by the Divinity, her every step in life carefully taken, as she is not only a woman of blessed purity, but the Kings only daughter.
The King, having to leave his castle of Preben, gathers together a bodyguard of twelve Knights of the finest reputation, to be led by Hildebrand, a Prince of England, to guard Hellalyle in his absence.
Over the coming weeks, and as already foretold in a vision sent to Hildebrand some years before he journeyed to Preben, he begins to fall deeply in love with Hellalyle and she with him. This blossoming romance is noted by the Queen Gudrun who sends a message to her husband; this displeases the King mightily which sets in motion a train of events both bloody and tragic.
Tarutin has written the tale into modern literature with a careful and elegant mastery of words which adds a considerable sense of time, history and emotion, to what possibly began life as a chivalric romance, but could just as easily have been a tale of folkloric, passed down by word of mouth, as it is also considered as a tale in Swedish folkloric.
Hellalyle and Hildebrand, regardless of what or where it came from, is a most captivating, deeply emotional story wrapped in the mists of time and magic, but still has relevance in the world of today.
The work was inspired from a translation of the Danish ballad Hellalyle and Hildebrand, translated by Whitely Stokes in 1855, a writer who was a close friend of the artist Fredrick Burton.
The Ballad held great appeal for Tagai Tarutin, who, over a five-year period has crafted the it into one of the most magical, beautiful stories of romance, bravery, tragedy and wonderment in Hellalyle and Hildebrand.
Set around 1288 Hellalyle is a young woman, beloved of all who know and meet her. She is of great beauty, a pure heart and is watched over by the Divinity, her every step in life carefully taken, as she is not only a woman of blessed purity, but the Kings only daughter.
The King, having to leave his castle of Preben, gathers together a bodyguard of twelve Knights of the finest reputation, to be led by Hildebrand, a Prince of England, to guard Hellalyle in his absence.
Over the coming weeks, and as already foretold in a vision sent to Hildebrand some years before he journeyed to Preben, he begins to fall deeply in love with Hellalyle and she with him. This blossoming romance is noted by the Queen Gudrun who sends a message to her husband; this displeases the King mightily which sets in motion a train of events both bloody and tragic.
Tarutin has written the tale into modern literature with a careful and elegant mastery of words which adds a considerable sense of time, history and emotion, to what possibly began life as a chivalric romance, but could just as easily have been a tale of folkloric, passed down by word of mouth, as it is also considered as a tale in Swedish folkloric.
Hellalyle and Hildebrand, regardless of what or where it came from, is a most captivating, deeply emotional story wrapped in the mists of time and magic, but still has relevance in the world of today.
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