Huh. I'm not one for description, but that's just so factual as to lose most emotion. It would probably be better read aloud, but in dry Project Gutenberg text it just seems...almost like an outline. (I'm sure I'd like it a lot better in a nice printed form.)

Old fairy tales always seem to have characters they just forget about -- in this case the brothers. They show up, what, twice?

I may get to these some time in the future. (I just remember that when Rebecca was reading "Heart's Blood" I repeatedly complained about stealing Jane Yolen's title for a completely different book.)