Archie And The North Wind (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
My thanks to Cailean Maclean who first told me the joke about Archie. ‘The Wee White Bull’, as told by Betsy Whyte, Montrose, to Barbara McDermitt, transcribed in Tocher 54 and 55; I translated the original Scots story into Gaelic and then ‘re-translated’ these into Gobhlachan’s English. Thanks for permission to reproduce these stories to Dr Cathlin Macaulay, Archivist, and Dr Margaret MacKay, Director, School of Scottish Studies. ‘Hector and the Balloon’, as recorded from Angus MacLennan, Frobost, South Uist, on 30 April 1958, by John Lorne Campbell. This extract from Stories from South Uist by Angus MacLellan, translated by John Lorne Campbell, is reproduced by permission of Birlinn Ltd, www.birlinn.co.uk. Thanks also to Magda Sagarsuza at the Canna Archive, and the National Trust for Scotland. ‘The Red Book’, ‘Connal’s Tale’, ‘Hurrah for Kintail’ and ‘The King of Lochlann’s Three Daughters’ can all be found in J.F. Campbell’s great nineteenth century collection, Popular Tales of the West Highlands, gathered from carters, servant-girls, fishermen, nursemaids, drovers, tinkers, shoemakers, blind fiddlers and others.
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