Week 7 Extra Credit Reading Part B: Twenty-Two Goblins

Twenty-Two Goblins translation by Arthur Ryder

I started this story last semester and never got around to finishing it. I am not sure that I like the ending. I wanted to know if the puzzles had a right answer or if they were just left to interpretation. At the ending the folklore said, "O King, so be it. And I will tell you something more. Listen. When anyone tells or hears with proper respect even a part of these puzzle-stories, he shall be immediately free from sin. And wherever these stories are told, elves and giants and witches and goblins and imps shall have no power." I am glad I am free from sin now. I enjoyed the puzzles and the fact that the goblin possessed a body that was cut down from a tree every day.
I want to continue from the conclusion and make the story have a better ending. I felt unfulfilled and disappointed. I liked that the King cut off the monk’s head in the conclusion. In the info section it says that, “This unit contains only single-page stories, plus a frametale that connects them all together.” The frametale is a bit difficult to keep up with because there is so much involved with the puzzles.

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