Research Catalog

Title

The Blue Mountains and other Gaelic stories from Cape Breton / translated and edited by John Shaw = Na beanntaichean gorma agus sgeulachdan eile à Ceap Breatainn / air an deasachadh le Iain Seathach.

Publication

Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors

Shaw, John William.

Description

xxi, 216 p. : ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "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 1989. The collection includes popular tales such as The Dragon Slayer, hero-tales of Fionn 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 translations. When possible, he identifies both the original Gaelic storyteller and the local reciters. Reciters in the collection include Joe Neil MacNeil, a major Canadian storyteller, as well as others whose stories have never before been published. The Blue Mountains and Other Gaelic Stories from Cape Breton showcases a unique and neglected storytelling tradition."--pub. desc.

Alternative Title

• Na beanntaichean gorma agus sgeulachdan eile à Ceap Breatainn
• Beanntaichean gorma agus sgeulachdan eile à Ceap Breatainn
• Beanntaichean gorma agus sgeulachdan eile à Ceap Breatainn

Subject

• Tales > Cape Breton Island
• Scots > Cape Breton Island > Folklore
• Scottish Gaelic language > Dialects > Cape Breton Island > Texts
• Storytellers > Cape Breton Island > Biography
• Contes > Cap-Breton, Île du
• Canadiens d'origine écossaise > Cap-Breton, Île du > Folklore
• Écossais (Langue) > Dialectes > Cap-Breton, Île du > Textes
• Conteurs > Cap-Breton, Île du > Biographies
• Cape Breton Island (N.S.) > Folklore
• Cap-Breton, Île du (N.-É.) > Folklore

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Folklore
• Texts
• Folklore.
• Texts.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-216).

Language (note)

• Stories in English with Gaelic translation on opposite pages.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. 1. International tales -- 1. The big fisherman's son -- 2. The man who got a pair of shoes for free -- 3. The blue mountains -- 4. The grey lads -- 5. The man who trapped death in a sack -- 6. Young Ian the widow's son -- Pt. 2. Stories about robbers and thieves -- 7. Red Conall of the tricks -- 8. The red cook -- 9. The black thief of the Glen -- 10. The two famous thieves -- Pt. 3. Tall tales -- 11. Angus Ban goes hunting -- 12. The white priest and the herring -- 13. The wise dog -- 14. The decapitated man -- 15. The big egg -- 16. A piece of the sky -- 17. The drowned piglet -- Pt. 4. Tales of the Fiann -- 18. Oisein, the last of the Fiann -- 19. Fionn and the lintel-stone -- Pt. 5. Historical legends and clan traditions -- 20. Ranald son of young Allan -- 21. Clanranald and the red gelding -- Pt. 6. Other legends -- 22. Riley and the devil -- 23. The black captain from Baile Chroic -- 24. The grey hound of Meoble -- 25. The man who went out on the night of the wedding and never returned -- 26. The black mill -- 27. The bleeding bone -- 28. The cardplayers and the devil -- Pt. 7. Tales of Boban Saor -- 29. How Boban Saor was put to the test -- 30. Boban Saor calls on his son -- The reciters.

ISBN

• 9780773532564 (bound)
• 0773532560 (bound)
• 9780773532571 (pbk.)
• 0773532579 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007281626

OCLC

• 85832819
• SCSB-10887174

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library