Basque Legends; With an Essay on the Basque Language

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Acheria, the Fox.—p. 43.
Acheria, the Fox.—p. 43.
Second Edition.
Basque Legends:
Collected, Chiefly in the Labourd,
By Rev. Wentworth Webster, M.A.,
Oxon.

With an Essay
On
The Basque Language,
By M. Julien Vinson,
Of the Revue de Linguistique, Paris.
Together with
Appendix: Basque Poetry.
London:
Griffith and Farran,
Successors to Newbery and Harris,
Corner of St. Paul’s Churchyard;

And
Walbrook & Co., 52, Fleet Street, E. C.
1879.
All Rights Reserved.
Printed by
W. O. Walbrook,
at the
Fleet Street Printing Works,
52, Fleet Street, London.
To
M. Antoine D’Abbadie,
of Abbadia,
Member of the Institute of France,
this
Translation of Legends,

originally told in the language of his ancestors,

in grateful acknowledgment

of

kindly courtesy and of ever-ready assistance,

is

dedicated

by his obliged and obedient servant,

Wentworth Webster.

Contents.

Contents.

Page

Introduction      vii

I.—Legends of the Tartaro      1

The Tartaro      4

M. d’Abbadie’s Version      4

Variations of above      5

Errua, the Madman      6

Variations of above      10

The Three Brothers, the Cruel Master, and the Tartaro      11

The Tartaro and Petit Perroquet      16

II.—The Heren-Suge.—The Seven-Headed Serpent      20

The Grateful Tartaro and the Heren-Suge      22

Variation of above      32

The Seven-Headed Serpent      33

The Serpent in the Wood      38

III.—Animal Tales      42

Acheria, the Fox      43

The Ass and the Wolf      45

IV.—Basa-Jaun, Basa-Andre, and Lamiñak      47

Basa-Jauna      49

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