Autorentext

BOB PEGG is a storyteller, musician, and songwriter whose career spans more than half a century. He has performed everywhere from a Viking longhouse in the wilds of Iceland to London's Royal Festival Hall. For sixteen years, he worked as an arts officer in the Highlands of Scotland, where he organised the Tales at Martinmas festival and the Merry Dancers Storytelling Project. ​Bob has written numerous books on folklore and folk tales--three of them published by The History Press--and his rich repertoire of stories reflects the many places he has visited and the diverse cultures he has encountered.

Klappentext

The Highlands of Scotland are rich in traditional stories. Even today, in the modern world of the internet and supermarkets, old legends dating as far back as the times of the Gaels, Picts and Vikings are still told at night around the fireside.

They are tales of the daoine sìth - the fairy people - and their homes in the green hills; of great and gory battles; of encounters with the last wolves in Britain; of solitary ghosts; and of supernatural creatures like the selkie, the mermaid, and the Fuath, Scotland's own Bigfoot.

In a vivid journey through the Highland landscape, from the towns and villages to the remotest places, by mountains, cliffs, peatland and glen, storyteller and folklorist Bob Pegg takes the reader along old and new roads to places where legend and landscape are inseparably linked.