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The people of the sea: Celtic tales of the seal-folk

By stewart , Heaney , Seamus;Thomson , David;Sanderson

Book information

Publisher
Canongate Books
ISBN
9781847674593, 1847674593
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
625 kB (640054 bytes)
Series
Canongate classics
Pages
illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
FOLKLOREmyths & legends;SOCIAL SCIENCE--Folklore & Mytholo

Description

David Thomson's travels in the Gaelic world of the Hebrides and the west coast of Ireland brought him into contact with a people whose association with the sea and its fertile lore runs deep. They told of men rescued by seals in stormy seas, of babies suckled by seal-mothers, and of men who took seal-women for wives -- stories centuries old, handed down to them by their forefathers. These mysterious and fascinating legends retain their spell-binding enchantment through the luminous quality of David Thomson's prose. From an early age, he was fascinated by the mysterious interaction between man and the sea. In the Selkie legends he found the perfect expression of a Celtic world where truth and fiction intertwine, and his book is a window onto that vanished world.

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