Author: John Francis CampbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Popular Tales of the West Highlands Orally Collected
Author: John Francis CampbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Popular Tales of the West Highlands
Author: Popular Tales of the West Highlands
Author: John F. CampbellPopular Tales of the West Highlands
Author: Popular Tales of the West Highlands
Author: John Francis CampbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Celts
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
POPULAR TALES OF THE WEST HIGHLANDS Vol. 1
Author: Anon E MousePublisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1907256024
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This second volume of Tales of the West Highlands contains thirty ursgeuln, or tales, fifty riddles plus a few extra stories. As always, these are tales and stories in which something 'Fairy' or magical occurs, something extraordinary --fairies, giants, dwarfs, princes, princesses, kings and queens, speaking animals and the remarkable stupidity of some of the characters. But these aren't just a collection of amusing and entertaining stories. Just 20 years after the Elementary Education Act of 1870 these are the tales that were still being used in those far- flung reaches of the Highlands to teach the young the lessons of life. Also included are Seanachas--those old Highland stories which in their telling resemble no others, whose origins are lost in the mists of the Highlands, if not the midst of time. So take some time out and travel back to a period before television and radio, a time when tales were passed on orally-- at the drying kilns, at the communal well or in homes, where families would gather around a crackling and spitting hearth and granddad or grandma or uncle or auntie would delight and captivate the gathering with stories passed on to them from their parents and grandparents from time immemorial. A proportion of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated towards the education of the underprivileged in Scotland.
Popular Tales of the West Highlands
Author: J.F. CampbellPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375017413
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.
Macmillan's Magazine
Author: Macmillan's Magazine
Author: David MassonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The Britannias: An Archipelago's Tale
Author: Alice AlbiniaPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393608565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
A revelatory portrait of Britain through its islands, The Britannias weaves history, myth, and travelogue to rewrite the story of this “island nation.” From Neolithic Orkney, Viking Shetland, and Druidical Anglesey to the joys and strangeness of modern Thanet, The Britannias explores the farthest reaches of Britain’s island topography, once known by the collective term “Britanniae” (the Britains). This expansive journey demonstrates how the smaller islands have wielded disproportionate influence on the mainland, becoming the fertile ground of political, cultural, and technological innovations that shaped history throughout the archipelago. In an act of feminist inquiry, personal adventure, and literary quest, Alice Albinia embarks on a series of journeys that traverse Britain and reach beyond its contemporary borders—from Europe to the Caribbean, Ireland to Scandinavia. She walks the coastlines of Lindisfarne, sails through the Hebrides archipelago, and bikes into Westminster at dawn. As she takes us across extravagantly varied island topographies and surveys centuries of history, Albinia ranges between languages and genres, and through disparate island cultures. She talks to stubbornly independent islanders and searches for archaeological and linguistic traces of island identities, discovering distinct traditions and resistance to mainland control. Trespassing into the past to understand the present, The Britannias uncovers an enduring and subversive mythology of islands ruled by women. Albinia finds female independence woven through Roman colonial reports and Welsh medieval poetry, Restoration utopias and island folk songs. These neglected epics offer fierce feminist countercurrents to mainstream narratives of British identity and shed new light on women’s status in the body politic today. Vivid, perceptive, and disruptive, The Britannias boldly upturns established truths about Britain while revealing its suppressed and forgotten beauty.