Heather and Broom
Tales of the Scottish Highlands
Published on 19. August 2014
107 pages
978-1-4976-4012-2 (ISBN)
Description
Eight folktales tell stories of romance, danger, and adventure in the ancient Scottish Highlands
In Scotland during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, traveling monks or harpers called seanachiespassed down many legends. They would wander from village to village, where local families would take them in and give them food and shelter. In exchange, the seanachies would delight the families with stories they had heard on their journeys.
Heather and Broomcontains eight seanachie stories from the Scottish Highlands, including the tales of the woman who tricked the fairies, the young lairdiewith a heart of gold, and the daughter of the magical seal king. The collection gives the reader a taste of the poetic, lively culture of the Celtic imagination.
In Scotland during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, traveling monks or harpers called seanachiespassed down many legends. They would wander from village to village, where local families would take them in and give them food and shelter. In exchange, the seanachies would delight the families with stories they had heard on their journeys.
Heather and Broomcontains eight seanachie stories from the Scottish Highlands, including the tales of the woman who tricked the fairies, the young lairdiewith a heart of gold, and the daughter of the magical seal king. The collection gives the reader a taste of the poetic, lively culture of the Celtic imagination.
More details
Person
Sorche Nic Leodhas (1898-1969) was bornLeClaire Louise Gowans in Youngstown, Ohio. After the death of her first husband, she moved to New York and attended classes at Columbia University. Several years later, she met her second husband and became LeClaire Gowans Alger. She was a longtime librarian at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she also wrote children's books. Shortly before she retired in 1966, she began publishing Scottish folktales and other stories under the pseudonym Sorche Nic Leodhas, Gaelic for
Claire, daughter of Louis. In 1963, she received a Newbery Honor for
Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland.Alger continued to write and publish books until her death 1969.
Content
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Ailpein Bird, the Stolen Princess, and the Brave Knight
- The Woman Who Flummoxed the Fairies
- The Lairdie with the Heart of Gold
- The Gay Goss-Hawk
- The Lass that Couldn't Be Frighted
- The Daughter of the King Ron
- Spin, Weave, Wear
- The Bogles from the Howff
- About the Author
- Copyright Page
