Ancient and Older Tales from Scotland
Haddo Country Park
Tarves
Ellon
AB41 7EQ
Hear true tales of the Picts, Britons and Gaels who lived long ago in this land, stories of battle-strife and epic triumphs, as well as quieter tales of wisdom, wonder and magic! Booking: vsohaddo@gmail.com 1. The First Noble Retinue of the Island of Britain: the story of Mynyddawg the Wealthy’s ill-fated expedition from Din Edyn (Edinburgh) to Catraeth (Catterick in North Yorkshire). 2. Fionn MacCumhail & the Old Man’s House: an uncanny Celtic Wisdom tale. 3. Dunnichen Moss A.D. 685: the mighty Northumbrian army, undefeated in thirty years, ‘meet their Waterloo’ at the hands of the Pictish King Bridei. Told entirely in heroic verse, the Anglo-Saxon alliterative line and the Brythonic ‘Englyn Milwr’ or ‘Soldier’s Verse’. 4. Maelbrigte Buck-tooth: A Pict’s revenge exacted on a perfidious Viking, a story that has come down to us from the Icelandic ‘Orkneyinga saga’. 5. Thomas the Rhymer: author of the earliest known poem in Scots, Thomas’s powers of poetry extended to those of prophecy – but how came he by these otherworldly arts?
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