The Blue Mountains and Other Gaelic Stories from Cape Breton
：Na Beanntaichean Gorma agus Sgeulachdan Eile à Ceap Breatainn
Publication subTitle ：Na Beanntaichean Gorma agus Sgeulachdan Eile à Ceap Breatainn
Publisher： McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication year： 2007
E-ISBN: 9780773560338
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780773532564
Subject： I1 World Literature
Keyword： 世界文学
Language： ENG
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Description
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.