Sinopsis
Discover the lore and language of the Basque people through collected legends and poetry.
This edition surveys Basque myths, tales, and songs gathered largely from rural communities, preserving a window into a living tradition. It frames how language, memory, and imagination shape these stories, from nature allegories to village dramas, and shows how modern readers can read them with fresh eyes.
The book balances introduction, notes, and text, guiding readers from the study of comparative mythology to the firsthand voices of Basque storytellers. You’ll find discussions of how legends travel, change, and endure, along with examples that illuminate Basque culture, belief, and daily life. The collection also includes Basque poetry and a selection of songs, highlighting the rhythm and flavor of the tradition.- Learn how Basque legends reflect language, landscape, and social life
- Explore how stories fuse old beliefs with later (and sometimes modern) elements
- Read illustrative tales, verses, and songs that survived through spoken recitation
- Access introductory essays and notes that place the tales in cultural and historical context
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Excerpt from Basque Legends, Vol. 4: Collected, Chiefly in the Labourd
Jr Not that we suppose all these tales to be atmospheric myths; we adopt this only as the provisional hypothesis which appears at present to cover the largest amount of facts. It seems certainly to be a vera causa in some cases but still it is only one of several possible verae causae, and is not to be applied to all.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Basque Legends, Vol. 4: Collected, Chiefly in the Labourd
The study of the recent science of Comparative Mythology is one of the most popular and attractive of minor scientific pursuits. It deals with a subject-matter which has interested most of us at one period of our lives, and turns the delight of our childhood into a charm and recreation for maturer age. Nor is it without more useful lessons. In it we see more clearly than perhaps elsewhere the reciprocal influence, which none can wholly escape, of words and language upon thought, and again of thought and fancy upon words and language; how mere words and syllables may modify both conception and belief; how the metaphor, which at first presented an object more clearly and vividly to the mind than any more direct form of speech could do, soon confuses and at last wholly distorts the original idea, and buries its meaning under a new and foreign superstructure.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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