More West Highland Tales
Author : John Francis Campbell
Publisher :
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 21,29 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Folklore
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Author : John Francis Campbell
Publisher :
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 21,29 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Folklore
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Page : 502 pages
File Size : 40,49 MB
Release : 1860
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Page : 454 pages
File Size : 18,64 MB
Release : 1862
Category : English literature
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Author : Fitzroy Maclean
Publisher : Birlinn Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 33,39 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
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In Highland households, the Seanachie, or bard in the retinue of every chief, told tales that were passed on from one generation to the next. This is a selection of tales from Deirdre of the Sorrows showing the influence of Irish tradition, to ghost stories, love stories and tales of warriors.
Author : Scottish Anthropological and Folk-lore Society, Edinburgh
Publisher :
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Celts
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Author : John Gregorson Campbell
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,19 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Civilization, Celtic
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Author : Duncan Williamson
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 32,12 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0857909657
No stories were more potent, more engaging, more subtle or profound than these half-animal, half-human tales of the sea. Time and time again listeners enthralled by Duncan Williamson's lore would ask him for the silkie tale. Duncan grew up with the seals, slept nights stranded by the tide in their colonies, heard countless stories from crofters, fishermen and travellers alike about the strange people who were related to the seal; the silkie stories magically link the two worlds, animal and human, sea and land. This new and expanded edition contains twenty-four stories, including thirteen that are previously unpublished, with a new introduction by Linda Williamson which examines the background of the West Highland belief in the seal people. The Land of the Seal People is a work of a master narrator, Scotland's greatest contemporary storyteller. The book is adult fiction of high intellectual and literary standards, and, as Scottish folk tales, suits children and adults alike. From the oral tradition of the West Coast, these stories are a vital part of Scotland's heritage.
Author : Robert Aitken
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 16,38 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Sports & Recreation
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Opened in 1980, the West Highland way was Scotland's first long distance walking route. This text is a companion guide for those taking the walk from Glasgow to Fort William and provides Ordinance Survey maps. It has been revised to incorporate changes in the character of the route over the years.
Author : J.F. Campbell
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 2022-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3375107234
Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
Author : Bob Pegg
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 38,49 MB
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0752478176
The Highlands of Scotland are rich in traditional stories. Even today, in the modern world of internet and supermarkets, old legends dating as far back as the times of the Gaels, Picts and Vikings are still told at night around the fireside. They are tales of the sidh – the fairy people – and their homes in the green hills; of great and gory battles, and of encounters with the last wolves in Britain; of solitary ghosts, and of supernatural creatures like the sinister waterhorse, the mermaid, and the Fuath , Scotland’s own Bigfoot. In a vivid journey through the Highland landscape, from the towns and villages to the remotest places, by mountains, cliffs, peatland and glen, storyteller and folklorist Bob Pegg takes the reader along old and new roads to places where legend and landscape are inseparably linked.