The Fabled Coast: Legends & traditions from around the shores of Britain & IrelandRandom House, 2012 M06 28 - 528 pages Pirates and smugglers, ghost ships and sea-serpents, fishermen’s prayers and sailors’ rituals – the coastline of the British Isles plays host to an astonishingly rich variety of local legends, customs, and superstitions. |
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... became common currency, translated into different idioms and languages, but recognisably similar fromthe Hebrides to the seaboard ofAmerica, from the Mediterranean to the Channel. The prototype of seafarers is Odysseus, whose exploits ...
... became a form of pilgrimage to get in their coracles and launch themselves on the sea to journey they knew not where, for the love of God. Whatever happened on the actual voyages, in poem and legend they are as extraordinary as the ...
... became a goddessfigure in laterlegend. Sir Francis Drake too took on a mythical character, gaining the reputation of a wizard during his lifetime (seePLYMOUTH, SouthWest England & Channel Islands), and was said centuries afterwards to ...
... became mysteriously lame, and on the approach to Bristol the ship stopped dead. Although the wind was favourable and strong, the vessel remained immovable, even with help from on shore, until one man shoved it off with his shoulder ...
... became mysteriously motionless, that they had been trapped by the remora, a small fish said to have great powers. The Roman writer Pliny maintained that this fish, commanding the fury ofthe winds, could hold a ship fast against a ...
Contents
SOUTHEAST ENGLAND | |
EAST ANGLIA | |
NORTHEAST ENGLAND | |
Cheshire Cumbria Lancashire Isle of Man Merseyside | |
WALES | |
SCOTTISH LOWLANDS | |
Highland Orkney Shetland Western Isles | |
NORTHERN EIRE NORTHERN IRELAND | |
Counties Clare Cork Dublin Kerry Waterford Wexford | |
Bibliography | |
References | |
Index | |