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Oct. 16th, 2002 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ravencallscrowsI went rummaging in the basement last night looking for things to read on the bus on my trips to and from work. Among the things i brought up were two volumes of folk-tales from the West Highlands, thinking that i'd find some material to use in there for the previously threatened story and song sessions. In addition to what i end up picking, i'm thinking about some other stories:
- Deirdre of the Sorrows, from the Irish;
- The Second Battle of Mag Tuireadh, also Irish in origin;
- Probably one of the accounts of the battles of the Irish hero Cu Chulainn, after Kinsella's Táin;
- The Selkie Who Deud Na' Forget, a cute short tale from Orkney.
Anyway, back to the book. These are much longer tales- probably at least ten to fifteen minutes worth of storytelling each as they stand- and would take a lot of committing to memory. In the book they're in Gaelic, with the English on the facing page, which is just too damn cool.
- Deirdre of the Sorrows, from the Irish;
- The Second Battle of Mag Tuireadh, also Irish in origin;
- Probably one of the accounts of the battles of the Irish hero Cu Chulainn, after Kinsella's Táin;
- The Selkie Who Deud Na' Forget, a cute short tale from Orkney.
Anyway, back to the book. These are much longer tales- probably at least ten to fifteen minutes worth of storytelling each as they stand- and would take a lot of committing to memory. In the book they're in Gaelic, with the English on the facing page, which is just too damn cool.
