Legends of Saints and Sinners by Douglas HYDE read by Various Part 2/2 | Full Audio Book

Legends of Saints and Sinners by Douglas HYDE (1860 - 1949)
Genre(s): Culture & Heritage Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

Read by: tommack, Geoffrey DeSena, Christine Lehman, Lissy Schneider, Jim Locke, Nolan Purcell, Aiken, Danielle Fedrigo, Alan Mapstone, Kazbek, ChadH94, Caleb Weaver, Laurel Emerson, KevinS, Jayfield, Cliona Woodbyrne, Lydia H, Kate Mulligan in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 41 - Section 41: The Poor Widow and Grania Oï
00:19:05 - 42 - Section 42: The Gambler of the Branch
00:23:09 - 43 - Section 43: The Beetle, The Dhardheel, and the Prumpolaun
00:30:44 - 44 - Section 44: The Lady of the Alms
00:36:51 - 45 - Section 45: St. Patrick and his Garron
00:52:02 - 46 - Section 46: How Saint Moling got his Name

'I have called the present volume 'Legends of Saints and Sinners,' which to a certain extent it is; but I mean it for a book of Irish Christian folk-lore. My idea in compiling it has been to give for the first time a collection of genuine Irish folk-lore which might be called 'Christian.' By this I mean folk-stories and folk-poems which are either entirely founded upon Christian conceptions, or else are so far coloured by them, that they could never have been told—at least in their present shape—had not Christianity established itself in Ireland. Every one of these stories conforms fairly to this standard, except one or two, which I give as necessary corollaries. They are all translations from the Irish. I have found hardly any such stories in English. They were mostly collected by myself from the mouths of native speakers, but three or four of them I have taken from Irish MSS. in my own possession, and a few more were given me by my friends. Not one of these stories was ever translated into English before, with the exception of those which I have taken from my own 'Religious Songs of Connacht.' - Summary by From The Introduction

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