Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales
By Joseph Jacobs, John Dickson Batten
Length6h 27m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "Last year, in giving the young ones a volume of English Fairy Tales, my difficulty was one of collection. This time, in offering them specimens of the rich folk-fancy of the Celts of these islands, my trouble has rather been one of selection. Ireland began to collect her folk-tales almost as early as any country in Europe, and Croker has found a whole school of successors in Carleton, Griffin, Kennedy, Curtin, and Douglas Hyde. Scotland had the great name of Campbell, and has still efficient followers in MacDougall, MacInnes, Carmichael, MacLeod, and Campbell of Tiree. Gallant little Wales has no name to rank alongside these; in this department the Cymru have shown less vigour than the Gaedhel. Perhaps the Eisteddfod, by offering prizes for the collection of Welsh folk-tales, may remove this inferiority. Meanwhile Wales must be content to be somewhat scantily represented among the Fairy Tales of the Celts, while the extinct Cornish tongue has only contributed one tale."
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.1 (3K)
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GenreLiterary Classics, Fantasy
Length6 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 24, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface
15The Wooing of Olwen
2Full-Page Illustrations
16Jack and His Comrades
3Connla and the Fairy Maiden
17The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire
4Guleesh
18The Story-Teller at Fault
5The Field of Boliauns
19The Sea-Maiden
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6The Horned Women
20A Legend of Knockmany
7Conall Yellowclaw
21Fair, Brown, and Trembling
8Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary
22Jack and His Master
9The Shepherd of Myddvai
23Beth Gellert
10The Sprightly Tailor
24The Tale of Ivan
11The Story of Deirdre
25Andrew Coffey
12Munachar and Manachar
26The Battle of the Birds
13Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree
27Brewery of Eggshells
14King O'Toole and His Goose
28The Lad with the Goat-skin
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