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The Arthurian Legend in Scotland and Cornwall
This chapter contains sections titled:
Scottish Chronicles and Arthurian Tradition
Folk Tradition and the Figure of Arthur
The Arthur of Romance
Cornwall
Place Names, Personal Names, and the Oldest Strata of Arthurian Legends
Conclusion
Primary Sources
References and Further Reading
Book Chapter
Is the Loch Ness Monster real?
\"Presents stories of the Loch Ness monster in Scotland, examining the evidence of various explanations and hoaxes surrounding this legend\"-- Provided by publisher.
Book
Bruce and the Spider
Read a Scottish legend about Robert the Bruce, king of Scotland in the 14th century. Find out how a spider inspired him to fight a war--and become \"one of the greatest kings of Scottish history\" (ABSOLUTELY WHOOTIE: STORIES TO GROW BY). A brief profile of this ruler is included.
Web Resource
Mar gur dream Sí iad atá ag mairiúInt fén bhfarraige: ML 4080 the Seal Woman in Its Irish and International Context
This dissertation is a study of the migratory supernatural legend ML 4080 “The Mermaid Legend” The story is first attested at the end of the eighteenth century, and hundreds of versions of the legend have been collected throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. I explore a number of related questions concerning this legend: its development and dissemination throughout this geographic area, the meanings it conveys for its traditional audiences and performers, and its afterlife in contemporary media and literature. The first chapter provides an overview of all the known versions of The Mermaid Legend, demographic information about storytellers and collectors, its typical forms, and the motifs or subtypes which are subject to geographic variation. I argue that the legend originated in Ireland or Gaelic Scotland and spread from Gaelic Scotland to Shetland and Orkney, and from there to the rest of the Norse world. My second chapter explores the relationship between The Mermaid Legend and other Irish and Scottish traditions about seals and mermaids. I conclude that they represent a stable body of belief concerning such beings, and relate to broader concerns about the relationship between humans and their environment. In my third chapter, I explore medieval and early modern Irish literary depictions of seals and mermaids. The fourth chapter explores the question of the possible functions and meanings of the legend, at both the collective and individual level. I include two individual case studies of versions of the legend recorded from storytellers with large repetoires and sufficient biographical information: Éamonn a Búrc of Carna, County Galway, and Peig Sayers of Dún Chaoin, County Kerry. In the fifth and final chapter, I explore a number of films and literary works by Irish creators which retell or draw inspiration from this legend. I explore both the relationship between these creators and oral tradition, as well as the ways in which the legend is adapted to address contemporary issues and debates about transnationalism, gender, the environment, and more.
Dissertation
Legends, Traditions or Coincidences: Remembrance of Historic Settlement in the Central Highlands of Scotland
Study has established that sources of evidence (local traditions, documentary, cartographic, archaeological) of the burning of a settlement at Bunrannoch during the 1745/6 Jacobite uprising are contradictory. Some contradictions may result from conflation of long term social memories of earlier events during the late first millennium CE and the way in which the events surrounding the uprising were subsequently remembered. Such conflation may stem from the way identities of local communities were conceived during the late eighteenth century. Some members of local communities would have grounded themselves in traditional life ways, which were being actively transformed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In contrast, sponsors of change, or improvement, viewed such communities as largely criminal and impoverished.
Journal Article
A dictionary of Celtic mythology
A comprehensive and accessible survey of the whole of Celtic mythology, legend, saga, and folklore. It covers the people, themes, concepts, places, and creatures of Celtic mythology, from both ancient and modern traditions, in 4,000 entries ranging from brief definitions to short essays.
eBook
\The Gudeman of Ballangeich\: rambles in the afterlife of James V
This article concerns a corpus of legends in which James V of Scotland disguised himself as the \"Gudeman of Ballangeich\" in order to enjoy amorous adventures. The traditions may or may not be contemporary, and equally there is no certainty about whether they reflect actual behaviour (although kings in general, including the Stuart kings, have been known to disguise themselves for a variety of reasons, including pleasure). However, in later centuries, allusions to the \"Gudeman of Ballangeich\" were used by Scots to refer surreptitiously to a Scots king, by Jacobites to refer to a Stuart king, and members of The Beggar's Benison, an eighteenth-century libertine club, used tales of James V to evoke memories of a better, pre-Union, pre-Calvinist Scotland of cultural creativity and sexual liberty. The legends of James V helped maintain the positive, popular image of this monarch as the \"poor man's king\" in the face of less kind judgements from contemporary elites and subsequent generations of historians.
Journal Article
Celticity and Storyteller Identity: The Use and Misuse of Ethnicity to Develop a Storyteller's Sense of Self
This paper looks at the self-representation of contemporary or revival storytellers claiming \"Celtic\" identity for themselves as storytellers, largely based on imagined traits of generic \"Celtic\" storytellers and storytelling styles, and content, which are conveyed via commercial images, suppositions about the Romantic era, and other mediated, second-hand or even erroneous sources. At the same time, such representations are compared with the self-representations of three traditional storytellers from Ireland and Scotland.
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The Witch's Familiar and the Fairy in Early Modern England and Scotland
This paper is a preliminary study into the nature of popular belief in the witch's familiar in early modern England and Scotland. It illustrates some of the similarities to be found between beliefs in the witch's familiar and contemporary fairy beliefs and argues that the extent of these similarities suggests that in the period there must have been considerable confusion between the two kinds of spirit, particularly on a popular level. The paper then goes on to argue that fairy beliefs provided a matrix of thought which underpinned the whole construct of the witch's familiar in the popular mind, a construct which interacted with elite demonological theory in a coherent and dynamic way.
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