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Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales from Burns to Buchan
Mystery and excitement abound in this lively collection of fairy tales, folklore and legends, which celebrate Scotland's enormously rich oral tradition and offers a carefully chosen combination of old favourites such as Tam Lin, Thomas Rymer and Adam Bell, as well as more modern stories by master story-tellers like Andrew Lang, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and John Buchan.
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Published October 2, 2008
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January 25, 2025
I really enjoy reading folk tales and myths, but I don't think this collection was for me. Admittedly I struggled a bit because of the Gaelic/Scots text required constantly looking at the bottom of the pages to understand what was going on. That's definitely a skill issue on my part, but still.
The stories I enjoyed the most in this book were these:
Thomas the Rhymer, Son of the Dead Women - Margaret Fay Shaw
Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree - Joseph Jacobs
The Lonely Giant - Alasdair MacLean (this had a paragraph that made me laugh)
The Man in the Boat - Betsy Whyte
The Tail - John Francis Campbell
The stories I enjoyed the most in this book were these:
Thomas the Rhymer, Son of the Dead Women - Margaret Fay Shaw
Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree - Joseph Jacobs
The Lonely Giant - Alasdair MacLean (this had a paragraph that made me laugh)
The Man in the Boat - Betsy Whyte
The Tail - John Francis Campbell
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