Author: Tom MuirPublisher:
ISBN: 9780954032029
Category : Legends
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The fiddler & the trow
Author: Tom MuirPublisher:
ISBN: 9780954032029
Category : Legends
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Fiddle Tradition of the Shetland Isles
Author: Peter CookePublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521268554
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A comprehensive study of the Shetland Isles 1970-1980, one of the liveliest fiddle-playing traditions in the world.
The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland
Author: Ernest MarwickPublisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788852729
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The two island groups of Orkney and Shetland have much in common. In each the grey stone houses and treeless landscapes are scoured in winter by stinging gales, and in summer lie under the endless days of the 'simmer din'. Originally Norwegian, they have been part of Scotland for five hundred years, but their many and varied legends, folk tales and customs are still saturated with Norse influences. While this book tells tales and discusses beliefs that are known throughout the northern isles, it also outlines those elements which are unique to each island group. The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland is the standard account of what to this day is one of the richest repositories of lore and custom in Britain. Ernest Marwick not only recounts countless tales which have been transmitted aurally and by writing, but also places these tales within geographical and historical contexts, thus enabling a deeper appreciation of this wonderful material. A bibliography is also included, together with an index of tale types and motifs.
The Lay of the Nibleungs
Author: Some Folk-tales and Legends of Shetland
Author: John NicolsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk literature, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Scottish Mythical Water Creatures & Legends
Author: Kevin ScottPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244208425
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
An illustrated A-Z of most, if not all, of Scotland's known water creatures born from myth and legend, with superstitious sailors still acknowledging some of their very existences to this day, accounting for strange disappearances and goings-on
The Lay of the Nibelungs
Author: Edward BellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epic poetry, German
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
The Lay of the Nibelungs
Author: Orkney Folk Tales
Author: Tom MuirPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750955333
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Orkney Islands are a place of mystery and magic, where the past and the present meet, ancient standing stones walk and burial mounds are the home of the trows. Orkney Folk Tales walks the reader across invisible islands that are home to fin folk and mermaids, and seals that are often far more than they appear to be. Here Orkney witches raise storms and predict the outcome of battles, ghosts seek revenge and the Devil sits in the rafters of St Magnus Cathedral, taking notes! Using ancient tales told by the firesides of the Picts and Vikings, storyteller Tom Muir takes the reader on a magical journey where he reveals how the islands were created from the teeth of a monster, how a giant built lochs and hills in his greed for fertile land, and how the waves are controlled by the hand of a goddess.
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