THE LAY OF DIARMAID - J. F. Campbell

THE LAY OF DIARMAID

By J. F. Campbell

  • Release Date: 2015-07-16
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature

Description

John Francis Campbell was a Scottish author, mostly known as a collector of folklore. Inspired by the work of the Grimm brothers and by Scandinavian scholars, John Campbell used his fluent Gaelic to study the Gaelic oral tradition, and published four volumes of collected stories as “Popular Tales of the West Highlands Orally Collected”, with a Translation in 1860-1862.
It is a story about a men and woman, who loved to hunt for wild boars. She was clever and faithful; he was a good hunter – strong, fast and deft. They used to hunt in Scottish forests. Read the story till the end to know about their life in rude conditions of past time!

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