The Blue Mountains and Other Gaelic Stories from Cape Breton

ISBN: 9780773532564

出版社: McGill Queens Univ Pr

出版年: 2007-5

页数: 224

定价: $ 107.35

装帧: HRD

内容简介

This title presents Gaelic tales from the best of Cape Breton's storytelling tradition.John Shaw has been documenting Cape Breton's Gaelic traditions since the 1960s. In "The Blue Mountains and Other Gaelic Stories from Cape Breton", he presents thirty tales recorded between 1964 and 1984. The collection includes popular tales such as "The Dragon Slayer", hero-tales of Finn Mac Cumhail and his warrior band, accounts of the famed carpenter Boban Saor, stories of robbers and thieves, comic tall tales, historical legends, and accounts of clan traditions brought over from the western Highlands. Shaw provides both the Gaelic texts and English translation.