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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Floris Books

FORMAT: Electronic Book Text

ISBN: 9781782500278

RRP: £6.99

PAGES: 114

PUBLICATION DATE:
August 22, 2016

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The Flight of the Golden Bird: Scottish Folk Tales for Children

Duncan Williamson

‘Stories are something you carry with you, something to last your entire life, to be passed on to your children, and their children for evermore.’ – Duncan Williamson

Duncan Williamson, one of Scotland’s Travelling People, has been celebrated as the bearer of Scotland’s greatest national treasure: the richest trove of story and song in Europe.

In this collection, he passes on some of these wonderful children’s folk and fairy tales, collected from sixty years of travelling around Scotland. This collection includes stories about silver horses and golden birds, cunning lions and trilling nightingales, brave princesses and magic scarecrows, the four seasons and old Father Time.

At the heart of each story is a lesson about life and what it means to be a good person. The stories have been written down as faithfully as possible to Duncan’s unique storytelling voice, full of colour, humour and life.

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Duncan Williamson

Duncan Williamson was born in 1928 on the shores of Loch Fyne. He was the seventh of sixteen children born to a family of Travellers, who set up camp in the same place every winter and wandered the Highlands during the summer, hawking their tin and natural willow wares. Duncan left home at the age of fifteen and spent the next forty years travelling, continuing the traditional trades of his people. In 1980 he moved into a farm cottage in Fife with his second wife, Linda, who transcribed some of his vast repertoire of songs, stories and family history. Duncan died in 2007, leaving behind a worldwide legacy. His reputation was extraordinary and the impact of his storytelling continues in literary editions of his work, published by Canongate, Cambridge University Press, Penguin, Mondadori, and more recently Birlinn, Luath Press and Floris Books.