Thomas Dick Lauder

Highland Legends, Annotated Thomas Dick Lauder

Highland Legends is published in continuation of those which first appeared in 1837, in pursuance of a plan, long cherished by the author, of collecting and preserving in print all the most interesting of the traditional and local histories of the Highlanders that yet remain, but which, to the regret of all antiquarians, are fast melting away. "Such legends," wrote the author, "are not only curious and interesting in themselves, but they will often prove to be helps to history from the accounts which they afford of the manners of the times to which they belong." The foot-notes, only in this particular re-print edition, aid greatly in the reading and understanding of the copious Scottish Gaelic words and expressions.