Fians, Fairies and Picts

Fians, Fairies and PictsThe following treatise is to some extent a re-statement and partly an amplification of...
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Author: MacRitchie, David,1851-1925
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Language: English
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Fians, Fairies and Picts

Fians, Fairies and Picts

€6,28

Fians, Fairies and Picts

€6,28
Author: MacRitchie, David,1851-1925
Format: eBook
Language: English

Fians, Fairies and Picts

The following treatise is to some extent a re-statement and partly an amplification of a theory I have elsewhere advanced.[1] But as that theory, although it has been advocated by several writers, especially during the past half-century, is not familiar to everybody, some remarks of an explanatory nature are necessary. And if this explanation assumes a narrative form, not without a tinge of autobiography, it is because this seems the most convenient way of stating the case. It is now a dozen years or thereabouts since I first read the "Popular Tales of the West Highlands," by Mr. J.F. Campbell, otherwise known by his courtesy-title of "Campbell of Islay." Mr. Campbell was, as many people know, a Highland gentleman of good family, who devoted much of his time to collecting and studying the oral traditions of his own district and of many lands. His equipment as a student of West Highland folklore was unique. He had the necessary[Pg vi] knowledge of Gaelic, the hereditary connection with the district which made him at home with the poorest peasant, and the sympathetic nature which proved a master-key in opening the storehouse of inherited belief. It is not likely that another Campbell of Islay will arise, and, indeed, in these days of decaying tradition, he would be born too late. In reading his book, then, for the first time, what impressed me more than anything else in his pages were statements such as the following: ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 17926
Author: MacRitchie, David
Release Date: Mar 5, 2006
Format: eBook
Language: English

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