The Legends of Ss, Ninian and Machor: From an Unique Ms. In the Scottish Dialect of the Edited, With Introduction, Notes, Glossary (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Some years ago I edited for the Scottish Text Society the entire series of Legends to which the two here printed belong. I have chosen these for separate editing because, in the first place, I agree with Dr. Horstmann that they are the two best legends in the series, and, in the second, because they are the only two out of the fifty Legends that make up the series that deal with Scottish Saints.

Like other Legends of the Saints, they are valuable not only because of the language in which they are told, but also because of the insight they afford into the manners and customs of the past and of the hints they furnish respecting the moral and intellectual atmosphere prevailing among those for whom they were written and by Whom they were listened to and read.

The Introduction was written and printed off some time ago. Had I to write it now, I might modify one or two of the phrases, but I do not think I should make any substantial alteration upon anything I have said.

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