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Gaelic Literature
of the Traditional prose: introduction |
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N.B. This site is best viewed on a
desktop or laptop PC Material listed in the Traditional Prose section
ranges from transcriptions of full length tales taken from oral recitation,
through literary versions of traditional tales, to descriptive and anecdotal
material. All the items have been
collected from, or written by men and women from the area. Each item is listed under the name of the
reciter, collector or author within a single alphabetical sequence. As well as single items, there are several
collections. For example; tales and
lore collected by Calum I. MacLean, tales and lore collected from Hugh
MacKinnon and collections of the published compositions of individual
authors, most notably the Rev. Tormod Domhnallach. As far as this section is concerned, my definition
of ‘traditional’ has a certain flexibility. Generally, material composed for
publication is included if the matter is traditional and the style does not
vary too much from the traditional.
For instance, the subject matter of Niall MacLeòid’s ‘Gaol
Gaidhealach’ in his Clàrsach an Doire
is certainly traditional, but his style varies so much from the traditional
that ‘Gaol Gaidhealach’ is listed in the section for non-traditional creative
prose while the other three stories in Clàrsach
an Doire are listed in this section. |
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