Clan Traditions and Popular Tales of the Western Highlands and Islands
Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition.
Series initiated and directed by
LORD ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL.
Demy 8vo, cloth.
ARGYLLSHIRE SERIES.
VOLUME I.
CRAIGNISH TALES.
Collected by the Rev. J. MacDougall; and Notes on the War Dress of the Celts by Lord Archibald Campbell, xvi, 98 pages. 20 plates. 1889. 5 s.
VOLUME II.
FOLK AND HERO TALES.
Collected, edited (in Gaelic), and translated by the Rev. D. MacInnes; with a Study on the Development of the Ossianic Saga and copious Notes by Alfred Nutt. xxiv, 497 pages. Portrait of Campbell of Islay, and two illustrations by E. Griset. 1890. 15 s.
“The most important work on Highland Folk-lore and Tales since Campbell’s world-renowned Popular Tales.”— Highland Monthly.
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CONTENTS.
PREFACE.
INTRODUCTION.
CLAN TRADITIONS.
MACLEANS OF DOWART.
MACLEANS OF COLL.
THE STORY OF MAC-AN-UIDHIR.
STEEPING THE WITHIES.
THE LAST CATTLE RAID IN TIREE.
LOCHBUIE’S TWO HERDSMEN.
MAC NEIL OF BARRA, AND THE LOCHLINNERS.
FINLAY GUIVNAC.
BIG DEWAR OF BALEMARTIN, TIREE.
THE BIG LAD OF DERVAIG.
STORY OF DONALD GORM OF SLEAT.
DONALD GORM IN MOIDART.
THE BLACK RAVEN OF GLENGARRY.
A TRADITION OF ISLAY.
LEGENDARY HISTORY.
STORIES ABOUT THE FAIRIES.
THE TRADITION OF A HOUSEWIFE AND HER FAIRY VISITOR.
THE WISE WOMAN OF DUNTULM AND THE FAIRIES.
FOLK TALES.
THE TWO SISTERS AND THE CURSE.
BEAST FABLES.
THE WOLF AND THE FOX.
THE FOX AND THE BIRD.
THE WREN.
GAMES.
APPENDIX.
I.—FINLAY GUIVNAC.
II.—PORT-NAN-LONG.
III.—A TRADITION OF MORAR.
IV.—CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN J. F. CAMPBELL OF ISLAY AND J. G. CAMPBELL.
