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The King and the Lamp

The King and the Lamp Scottish Traveller Tales - Canongate Classics

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Publisher's Synopsis

The telling of tales and the oral tradition in Scotland has long and honourable history, both in the annals of the folk and in the more formal pages of literary publication. Writers as different as Hogg, Scott, Stevenson, Cunninghame Graham, Buchan, Grassic Gibbon and Alasdair Gray have all drawn on the form or the voice or the features of the folk tale.

Duncan Williamson, arguably the greatest traditional tale teller in modern times, is a master of this spellbinding art, and here in a single volume Linda Williamson has gathered together some of the most memorable tales in his repertoire.

Transcribed from recorded sessions for the sound archives of the School of Scottish Studies, these twenty-six stories give us privileged access to the travellers' fireside with stories of talking animals; of the broonie, selkies and fairies; of cunning Jack's adventures; of kings and giants in long tales for the winter nights.

Book information

ISBN: 9781847675057
Publisher: Canongate Books
Imprint: Canongate
Pub date:
Edition: Main
DEWEY: 823.914
DEWEY edition: 21
Number of pages: 314
Weight: -1g