Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Tragische Romanzen
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Readers who love Celtic folklore, ghost stories, sea legends and tales of doomed love will feel at home in these seven Highland and island stories, full of song, charms and weather.
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What would you do if a stranger offered you silver to eat a dead man's sins? Each story is short, wild and musical. Together they show a world where love and the sea pull people toward doom. The first tale begins on a rainy Sunday in Strathglas.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A Highland family hears of a daughter's ruinFree
- 2Oaths and music gather around a seal-clan fisherman
- 3A stranger agrees to eat a dead man's sins
- 4The sea calls certain people to come away
- 5A lover swims beneath green branches to meet her
- 6Two men who love one woman share a night at sea
- 7Fate and the sea shape every tale
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A Highland family hears of a daughter's ruin
The first tale, Morag of the Glen, is set in Strathglas, a wet, lonely valley in Argyll. A young cousin tells it. She lives at Teenabrae with her aunt Elspeth, her stern uncle Archibald Campbell, called Gorromalt, and his daughters Muireall and Morag. The family already faces a new English landlord, Lord Greycourt, who wants higher rent and a deer park.
On a Sunday in August, the minister Allan Stewart walks up to the house with bad news. Muireall has been ruined by Jasper Morgan, the landlord's son, and lies dying at an inn in Kilbrennan. Morag slips away with a note from her sister, written in Gaelic, which points to an old family story.
That night the house fills with dread. Elspeth speaks an old charm, and the blind collie Rory snarls toward the door. The tale shows how pride, grief and ancient belief press on one household.
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Questions about Tragische Romanzen
What is Tragic Romances about?
It is a collection of seven tales set in the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Each tells of love, rivalry or longing, and of a fate shaped by the sea, the dead, seals, curses and old Gaelic custom.
What is a sin-eater in this book?
In the tale of that name, a sin-eater is a stranger paid to eat bread and drink salted water laid on a corpse. By custom, he takes the dead person's sins upon himself.
What does the Dàn-nan-Ròn mean?
It is Gaelic for the Song of the Seal. In the story of Mànus MacCodrum, it is a haunting flute tune linked to the belief that seals are men under a spell.
Who was Fiona Macleod?
Fiona Macleod is the author of these tales of Highland and island life, shaped by Celtic belief, songs and sea lore.
Are these tales based on real folklore?
They draw on island beliefs, such as seal-folk, the sin-eater, charms, corpse-lights and the ninth wave. The stories themselves are the author's own fiction, written in a voice of old Gaelic tradition.