Skye The Island and Its Legends

by Swire, Otta

• ISBN13: 9781841584799
• ISBN10: 1841584797
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-01
• Publisher: Birlinn Ltd

Summary

To Many People the quintessential Scottish island, Skye is a place of extraordinary natural beauty which also boasts a rich heritage of legend and folk tales which have been handed down orally over countless generations. Many stories date back to pre-Christian times, to the edge of the Iron Age, and are interwoven with threads from the wider tradition of Gaelic heroic myth and legend.

Author Biography

Otta Swire was born in 1898 and spent many happy childhood holidays in Skye, where she became captivated by the islands rich history of folklore and began recording them in notebooks. She had these formally published in 1949, after she had moved to Skye to live permanently. She died in 1973.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Sir William Tarn
Preface	xi
Jim Swire
Acknowledgements	xii
Introduction	xiii
Ronald Black
FROM THE GATEWAY TO THE CAPITAL
Kyleakin to Broadford	3	(9)
Broadford to Sligachan	12	(7)
The Cuchullins	19	(8)
Sligachan to Portree	27	(10)
NORTH SKYE
Trotternish: Portree to Flodigarry	37	(13)
Trotternish: Duntulm	50	(8)
Trotternish: Duntulm to Portree	58	(14)
Portree to Edinbane	72	(11)
Edinbane to Fairy Bridge	83	(11)
Waternish	94	(10)
Fairy Bridge to Dunvegan	104	(19)
Glendale	123	(10)
Borreraig	133	(7)
Dunvegan to the Maidens	140	(14)
Roag, Harlosh, Bracadale	154	(15)
Bracadale	169	(18)
SOUTH SKYE
Kylerhea	187	(7)
Sleat	194	(22)
Strath	216	(18)
Map	234	(3)
Index	237