The Knight In Tarnished Armour and Other Stories

By Anushka Haakonson

Sir Niall is not your usual knight. With his experimental farm and feisty cow-herd, he's still the only hero in a kingdom where befuddlement reigns, especially when the evil Warlord Minton is around.
Three short stories featuring the bespectacled knight, Cowie and one not so little dragon.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Learning To Surf Publishing
• Release date: Mar 8, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311873897

Anushka Haakonson

Anushka is a collector of fairytales, especially Scottish and Scandinavian ones. They are her inspiration.

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The Knight In Tarnished Armour

By Anushka Haakonson

With cover design by Leennascreativebox

Copyright 2000, 2003/2015 Anushka Haakonson

Published by Learning To Surf Publishing

Smashwords Edition 2016

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Table of Contents:

The Knight In Tarnished Armour

Minton's Revenge

The Key To Wishes

The Fearsome Dragon

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The Knight In Tarnished Armour

Once upon a time, neither you nor me quite know, there lived a Princess.

She wasn’t very interested in princessing. Actually, she was more interested in travelling, and meeting people and experiencing what her people’s lives really were like, so that when she became queen (as she indubitably would) she would be able to help them lead happier lives.

As her ambitions were contrary to the normal princessing duties, she ran away.

Which was why, when the evil warlording king from the neighbouring country demanded her hand in marriage (in order that he could legitimately have a heir – then he’d kill her) the princess’s father, the King, shrugged his shoulders and said Sure, if you can find her….

You see, he had not a large enough army to counter the warlord’s one.

So Minton the Warlord (you would go warlording too if your mother insisted on calling you Mini, dear) promptly set about searching for the runaway Princess by laying waste to all the hills he came across (for everyone knows that runaways hide in the hills), and enriching the valleys by provisioning his troops in the numerous villages found there.

It was a very