Popular Tales of the West Highlands
Gaelic tales taken down in the Hebrides and the western mainland from named tellers, a stonemason, a fisherman, an old woman in Barra, and printed with the Gaelic facing the English and a note on who told it and when. Long hero tales of giants, enchanted hinds, and sons who set out with a bannock and a mother's blessing sit beside brief animal fables and local versions of stories current across Europe. The first collection in Britain gathered on the principles of Grimm and of Asbjornsen and Moe, and still the main body of evidence for how Scottish Gaelic storytelling actually worked.
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- modeled on ↑ Children's and Household Tales
- modeled on ↑ Norwegian Folktales
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