GUAIGEAN LADHRACH 'S LOIREAN SPAGACH

John Francis Campbell was a Scottish author, mostly known as a collector of folklore. Inspired by the work of the Grimm brothers and by Scandinavian scholars, John Campbell used his fluent Gaelic to study the Gaelic oral tradition, and published four volumes of collected stories as “Popular Tales of the West Highlands Orally Collected”, with a Translation in 1860-1862.

Once upon a time, there was a family, which lived near the king’s palace. They sent their son every evening to king’s ownership to ask him some vital questions. It was a shiny evening, when the boy went to the king’s house, but near it, he met a dog… What happened next? Read the story to know!