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This title presents Gaelic tales from the best of Cape Breton's storytelling tradition.John Shaw has been documenting Cape Breton's Gaelic traditions since the 1960s. In "The Blue Mountains and Other Gaelic Stories from Cape Breton", he presents thirty tales recorded between 1964 and 1984. The collection includes popular tales such as "The Dragon Slayer", hero-tales of Finn Mac Cumhail and his warrior band, accounts of the famed carpenter Boban Saor, stories of robbers and thieves, comic tall tales, historical legends, and accounts of clan traditions brought over from the western Highlands. Shaw provides both the Gaelic texts and English translation.

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Book category Książki po angielsku Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge

• Full title: Blue Mountains and Other Gaelic Stories from Cape Breton
• Subtitle: Na Beanntaichean Gorma agus Sgeulachdan Eile a Ceap Breatainn
• Author: John Shaw
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780773532571
• ISBN: 0773532579
• ID: 04918670
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Weight: 356 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. May 2007

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