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HISTORICAL
TALES AND LEGENDS
OF THE
HIGHLANDS.
COMPILED BY
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE,
EDITOR OF THE “CELTIC MAGAZINE,”
AUTHOR OF THE “HISTORY OF THE CLAN MACKENZIE,”
THE “PROPHECIES OF THE BRAHAN SEER,” &c., &c.
“’S iomadh rud a chi
Am fear a bhitheas fada beo.”
INVERNESS:
A. & W. MACKENZIE, CELTIC MAGAZINE OFFICE
EDINBURGH: MACLACHLAN & STEWART.
1878.
PREFACE
These TALES AND LEGENDS were very favourably received by a
wide circle of readers, and by the Press generally, as they appeared
from month to month in the _Celtic Magazine_. They are now published
in a collected form at the request of many who have previously perused
them. I would like to present the public with the names of their
authors; but as one of them—the “Norman” and “Torquil” of the _Celtic
Magazine_—objects to have his name made public, although he has
written the greater number of them, I must content myself now by taking
advantage of this opportunity to thank him, “Mac Iain,” and the others
who supplied the Tales and Legends, the merits of which—especially
those for which I may be held personally responsible—I propose to
leave to the tender mercies of an indulgent public.