Frame story is contemporary; sister Norah tells traditional Cuculain tale to Con, who re-enacts the heroes; sister sings him to sleep, invoking the Lord of the Wand; Con in turn summons the Shepherd, a golden-bearded man who flies over fairyland with him, to his home with the Danaans in their immortal lands, in a cave where “there was everywhere a wandering ecstasy of sound: light and sound were one; knight had a voice, and the music hung glittering in the air.” This is the cave of eternal forms, of which earth is a mere shadow. Shepherd identifies himself as Angus the Young, the sunlight in the heart, the moonlight in the mind. The child wakes.
Public Domain
Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library, Museums, and Press.
Relation
Green Sheaf Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2022.
Public Domain
Toronto Metropolitan University Archives & Special Collections
Relation
Dial Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2018-2020. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019.
A ne’er-do-well sells his soul to the devil; 20 years later, his time is up, but he ships out to the China Seas; his Captain saves him by giving the Devil 3 tasks he can’t complete.
Public Domain
Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library, Museums, and Press.
Relation
Green Sheaf Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2022.
An account of the ancient superstitions in the Alpilles in Provence, and their ongoing presence in traditional story and ritual
Description
“King René of Anjou, the laughter-loving Count of Provence, seeking to divert the melancholy of his beloved wife, Jeanne de Laval, turned the old-time-Keltic terror into gay new fetes: the games of the tarasque. These games are still played. The tarasque—a monster of wood and canvas….now goes through the sunny streets of Tarascon….”
Public Domain
Toronto Metropolitan University Library Archives and Special Collections
Relation
Evergreen Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2016-2018. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019.
Public Domain
Toronto Metropolitan University Library Archives and Special Collections
Relation
Evergreen Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2016-2018. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019.
Public Domain
Toronto Metropolitan University Archives & Special Collections
Relation
Dial Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2018-2020. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019.
Public Domain
Toronto Metropolitan University Archives & Special Collections
Relation
Dial Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2018-2020. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019.
Public Domain
Toronto Metropolitan University Library Archives and Special Collections
Relation
Evergreen Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2016-2018. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019.
Bishop Hilarion visits Batlida in her hut, accompanied by her son Felix, a priest, on their way to the Seven Isles to baptize those living there. Batilda bakes cakes to honour the visit. The Bishop blesses and teaches the community before departing.
Public Domain
Toronto Metropolitan University Archives & Special Collections
Relation
Dial Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2018-2020. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019.
Public Domain
Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library, Museums, and Press
Relation
Green Sheaf Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2022.