The folklore of Northern Scotland: Five Discourses on Cultural Representation.

Folklore | January 1, 1998| | Copyright

How is it possible to do justice, in the limits of this lecture, to the folklore of Northern Scotland, a relatively vast, unevenly populated area--roughly one sixth of the land area of the British mainland--that stretches from Iona in the west to Unst in the Shetland Isles, from the Angus and Perthshire glens to the Outer Hebrides? It would be relatively easy, I suppose, if superficial and repetitive, to summarise the folklore that has been amassed over two and a half centuries. It would be less easy, but probably more instructive, to survey the lore that has spread from this ...

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