Ellon reminiscences [2 compact discs]
Brown, DavidUUUU
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Formartine Partnership 2008.
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2 compact discs (1 hr., 26 min.)
Series title:
Formartine Oral History Project ; FP110771
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Interviewed by Barry McCabe and Fiona-Jane Brown.Summary: David Brown is the Area Ranger for Formartine, and was born in Kendal in Yorkshire. He talks to Barry from Ellon Academy about his early life, schooldays, being at a boarding school and the old-fashioned teachers; his work, moving up to Aberdeenshire with his wife and trying hard to get a job. With Fiona-Jane, David talks about his storytelling activities, how he became interested in Norse and Celtic mythology which encouraged him to learn the Norse and Welsh tales, how he had to finally get a Welsh person to read out the names of the characters in the epic Mabinogion stories so he could pronounce them and also about how he feels about adult and child audiences. They then talk about the story of Wayland the Smith, which David says has historical truth in some versions about sword making. He then goes on to tell the legendary tale of the Evil Priest of Forvie in which the people think they are cursed by a priest who seems anything but holy. David explains that he got the story from a poem he was shown at Forvie nature reserve and has no idea where it came from. FJ suggests it has relations to smuggling and they talk about smuggling and local characters involved.
Language:
English
BRN:
219746