Basque LegendsGriffith and Farran, 1877 - 233 Seiten Wentworth Webster published Basque Legends in 1877. Also included in this volume is "An Essay on the Basque Language" (1876) by Julien Vinson, and an essay on Basque poetry. |
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Agenais arrives arrondissement of Bayonne asks astonished Azor Bagnères de Bigorre Basa-Andre Basa-Jaun Basque Language Bayonne beautiful blackbird brothers Campbell Campbell's captain castle Cerquand child comes Contes devil donkey's tail door dress fairy father feast fetch Fidel forest Gaelic garden Gascon gentleman give gold happened head heard HIRIGARAY horse husband Juan de Kalais Juan Dekos JULIEN VINSON killed king king's daughter Labourd language legends look Madame d'Aulnoy Malbrouk mare Marie Louise marry master mother mountain Navarre night old woman pass Pays Basque Petit Perroquet Petit Yorge poor Pretty-Rose priest princess recognise ring sack Sea-Maiden sends serpent servant seven sister soon Souletine story sword takes tale Tardets Tartaro tells terrible three daughters throws told Valiant Little Tailor wife wish witch wolf young girl young lady says
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Seite 59 - The man does as his wife had told him. The devil comes, and draws back when he sees him, and our man goes up quite close to the devil. The devil, being frightened, said to him: " ' I am so many years old, and I have never seen any animal like that, and such a frightful one!' " Our man had heard enough. He went off home at full speed, and told his wife that they would want for nothing; that he had done as she had told him, just as if she had been a witch, and that he was no longer afraid of the devil....
Seite 58 - So the servant bids her come in, and then she tells how she had seen an old witch leaping and bounding from one ditch to another, and singing all the time, ' Houpa, houpa, Marie Kirikitoun, nobody will remember my name.
Seite 58 - If you have nothing but that, it is nothing at all. Get into a barrel of honey, and when you come out of it get into another barrel of feathers, and dressed like that go to the cross-roads and wait for the devil there. You will put yourself on all fours, and walk backwards and forwards, and go between his legs, and walk all round him.
Seite 111 - stay by me another year, and then I will send thee away." The end of this year came, and the giant sent them away, and three score of stots for the eagle's meat; and when they were at the mouth of the hole the stots were expended, and she was going to turn back; but he took a steak out of his own thigh, and he gave this to the eagle, and with one spring she was on the surface of the earth. At the time of parting the eagle gave him a whistle, and she said to him, " Any hard lot that comes on thee,...
Seite 83 - It is the Lunar Lady who worms the great secret out of the Monster concerning his death, when he confesses where his heart lies hidden. " At last, at last," he tells her, "you must kill a terrible wolf which is in the forest, and inside of him is a fox, and in the fox is a pigeon ; this pigeon has an egg in its head, and whoever should strike me on the forehead with this egg would kill me.
Seite xiii - ... the finished jewel. But this is foreign to my work; my visits were to the tellers of old stories, and had nothing to do with political economy and public morals. I paid my visits, and heard the stories; and a goodly audience often gathered to share the treat, and all seemed marvellously to enjoy it. If there was an occasional coarse word spoken, it was not coarsely meant. Let me describe one of these old story men as a type of his kind. I trust he will not be offended, for he was very polite...
Seite 58 - There were a man and wife who were very poor. The man used to sit sadly at a cross-road. There came to him a gentleman who asked, ' Why are you so sad ?' " 'Because I have not wherewith to live,' he said to him. " ' I will give you as much money as you like, if, at such a time, you tell me the age of the devil.' ' ' Our man goes off happy. He leads a merry life with his wife, for they wanted for nothing. They lived at a great rate. But time went on, and the time was approaching. The man recollected...
Seite 82 - ... which Armstrong translates as, sport, game, mirth, chess, backgammon, draughts. This story resembles in some particulars — 1 . The Gaelic tale published by Dr. MacLeod, printed page 30, Leobhar Nan Cnoc. 1834. 2. The Sea Maiden, in present collection, and the stories referred to in the notes. 3. The Giant who had no Heart in his Body. Norse Tales.
Seite 189 - At this she smiled and dried her eyes, but quickly added, 'You will let me take these crows with me, will you not? for I love them dearly, and I cannot go away unless they may come too.
Seite 91 - there never went man to this castle that returned.' 'Be that as it pleases,' says he. He went; he betakes himself to the castle. When he reached the door, a little flattering crone met him standing in the door. 'All hail and good luck to thee, fisher's son; 'tis I myself am pleased to see thee; great is the honour for this kingdom, thy like to be...