Ebook: The people of the sea: Celtic tales of the seal-folk
Author: Heaney Seamus, Thomson David, Sanderson Stewart
- Tags: Folklore myths & legends, SOCIAL SCIENCE--Folklore & Mythology, Irish, Scots, Seals (Animals), Folklore, Seals (Animals) -- Folklore, Irish -- Folklore, Scots -- Folklore, SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology
- Series: Canongate classics
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Canongate Books
- City: Edinburgh
- Language: English
- epub
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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