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The Daughter Of King Under-Waves is a Scottish fairy tale collected by John Francis Campbell in Popular Tales of the West Highlands. He listed as his source Roderick MacLean, a tailor of Ken Tangval, Barra, who reported hearing it from old men in South Uist, including Angus Macintyre, Bornish, who was about eighty. The text was written by H. MacLean, 1860.
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References
- ↑ Campbell, John Francis (1890). Popular Tales of the West Highlands. Vol. 2. Alexander Gardner. p. 143.
- ↑ Campbell, John Francis (1890). "The Tale of the Queen Who Sought a Drink From a Certain Well". Popular Tales of the West Highlands. Vol. 2. Alexander Gardner. pp. 144–145.
- ↑ Campbell, John Francis (1890). "The Tale of the Queen Who Sought a Drink From a Certain Well". Popular Tales of the West Highlands. Vol. 2. Alexander Gardner. pp. 141–143 (English translation), 143–144 (Scottish Gaelic text).
- ↑ Ashliman, D. L. A Guide to Folktales in the English Language: Based on the Aarne-Thompson Classification System. Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature, vol. 11. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1987. pp. 92-93. ISBN 0-313-25961-5.
