Scottish traditional tales
2003
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Taken from a variety of sources, from the Hebridean Gaelic to the Lowlands, this is an authoritive collection of tales that are divided by theme - tall tales, hero tales, legends of ghosts and evil spirits, clan feuds and much more.Within collection are fifteen stories from Tom Tulloch of Yell, Tom Moncrieff , Tom Robertson, george Peterson of Papa Stour, Andrew Hunter and Mrs Anderson of Fetlar. The whole book is taken from a variety of sources, from the Gaelic Hebrides to the lowlands, this is an authoritative and original collection. The tales are divided by theme - tall tales, hero tales, legends of ghosts and evil spirits, clan feuds and much more.
Main title:
Scottish traditional tales / edited by Alan Bruford and Donald A. MacDonald.
Author:
Edition:
Reprint.
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Birlinn, 2003.
Collation:
496 pages : music ; 22 cm.viii, 488 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: Edinburgh: Polygon, 1994.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
18415826469781841582641 (pbk)1841582646 (pbk)
Dewey class:
398.209411398.209411398.209411398.2398.2'09411398.0941398398.209
Local class:
398.20941398.2398.209
Language:
English
BRN:
148028