Folklore, fairy tales, legends and myths from Scotland.
This volume, Tales from the Land of The Brave, is the Scottish collection, part of a series covering the whole of the British Isles. These tales are drawn from some of the great collectors of Celtic and Scottish storytelling, and as ever, these stories illustrate the beauty and the darkness inherent in our ancestral memories and in our ‘modern’ interpretations of this confusing world. These titles will grow over coming years to tell lost and forgotten tales from every continent, and even then, I’ll just be scratching the surface of the world’s lore and love.
Table des matières
PREFACE
ASSIPATTLE AND THE MESTER STOORWORM
BLACK COLIN OF LOCH AWE
CANONBIE DICK AND THOMAS OF ERCILDOUNE
COINNACH OER
ELPHIN IRVING
EWEN OF THE LITTLE HEAD
FARQUHAR MACNEIL
GOLD-TREE AND SILVER-TREE
HABETROT THE SPINSTRESS
JOCK AND HIS MOTHER
KATHERINE CRACKERNUTS
MICHAEL SCOTT
NIPPIT FIT AND CLIPPIT FIT
PEERIFOOL
PINKEL THE THIEF
RORY MACGILLIVRAY
SECRET COMMONWEALTH
THE BATTLE OF THE BIRDS
THE BELIEVING HUSBANDS
THE BLACK BULL OF NORROWAY
THE BLACK THIEF AND KNIGHT OF THE GLEN
THE BLUE MOUNTAINS
THE BOGLE
THE BROWN BEAR OF NORWAY
THE BROWNIE O’ FERNE-DEN
THE DEATH “BREE”
THE DOOMED RIDER
THE DRAIGLIN’ HOGNEY
THE DWARFIE STONE
THE ELFIN KNIGHT
THE ENCHANTED DEER
THE FAIRIES OF MERLIN’S CRAG
THE FAIRY BOY OF LEITH
THE FIDDLER AND THE BOGLE OF BOGANDORAN
THE FISHERMAN AND THE MERMAN
THE FISHERMEN OF SHETLAND
THE FOX AND THE WOLF
THE GHOSTS OF CRAIG-AULNAIC
THE HOODIE-CROW.
THE KING OF THE WATERFALLS
THE LAIRD O’ CO’
THE LAIRD OF BALMACHIE’S WIFE
THE MERMAID WIFE
THE MILK-WHITE DOO
THE MINISTER AND THE FAIRY
THE PAGE-BOY AND THE SILVER GOBLET
THE PRINCESS BELLA-FLOR
THE RED ETIN
THE SEAL-CATCHER AND THE MERMAN
THE SEAL-CATCHER’S ADVENTURE
THE SHIFTY LAD
THE SPRIGHTLY TAILOR
THE STORY OF JOHN O’GROATS
THE THREE CROWNS
THE UGLY DUCKLING
THE WEDDING OF ROBIN REDBREAST AND JENNY WREN
THE WEE BANNOCK
THE WEIRD OF THE THREE ARROWS
THE WELL O’ THE WORLD’S END
THE WITCH OF FIFE
THOMAS THE RHYMER
WHIPPETY-STOURIE
HISTORICAL NOTES
ABOUT THE EDITOR
A propos de l’auteur
I was born in 1962 into a predominantly sporting household – Dad being a good footballer, playing senior amateur and lower league professional football in England, as well as running a series of private businesses in partnership with mum, herself an accomplished and medal winning dancer.I obtained a degree in History from Leeds University before wandering rather haphazardly into the emerging world of business computing in the late nineteen-eighties.
A little like my sporting father, I followed a succession of amateur writing paths alongside my career in technology, including working as a freelance journalist and book reviewer, my one claim to fame being a by-line in a national newspaper in the UK, The Sunday People.
I also spent 10 years treading the boards, appearing all over the south of the UK in pantos and plays, in village halls and occasionally on the stage of a professional theatre or two.
Following the sporting theme, and a while after I hung up my own boots, I worked on live TV broadcasts for the BBC, ITV, TVNZ, Euro Sport and others as a rugby ‘Stato’, covering Heineken Cups, Six Nations, IRB World Sevens and IRB World Cups in the late ’90’s and early ’00’s.
I try to combine my love of storytelling with a passion for information technology, and am currently Vice President – Technology with a major UK Fin Tech company.
You can find out more about Clive’s work and contact me at: https://www.boyonabench.com
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