Storytelling: The Living Art -- David Campbell
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ส.ค. 2013
- Travel back to 1829 with David Campbell for an intriguing Scots tale.
Filmed by Black Box Digital | blackboxdigitalmedia.com
Storyteller David Campbell | www.daviddcampbell.co.uk
A Creative Scotland/National Lottery funded project showcasing the traditional art of storytelling for a 21st century audience. www.creativescotland.com - บันเทิง
lovely seeing David performing this story - I had the good fortune of meeting him out near Glenuig a few weeks back and got to share some tales and some whiskey
Excellent Storyteller
I did the song 'Twa Corbies" with David Campbell in the Library of Rotterdam, I think it was 1996
"Dear God, she said"...aye and he's a bonnie storyteller and a bonnie fine lad, he be.
Is it historically true Hare betrayed Burke? Ans he got away, "scot free" said by a Scotsman. Is there a connection between the phrase and Scottish law?
Hi Soslothful :
There has been the suggestion that Burke had had enough and wanted to be caught by historians as well as them also speculating Hare was the more sinister of the two. Burke was hanged for murdering 16 men, women and children while Hare was given immunity from prosecution after testifying against his partner in crime.
“scot” in the case of "scot free" is from the Old Norse word “skot” meaning “payment” or “contribution”. In English, “scot” initially just meant “tax” so the phrase scot free was first used in reference to civic tax levies., and is not connected to Scottish law.
@@ScottishStorytellingCentreEdSo to get away, "scot free" is to have avoided paying this tax?
@@soslothful believe it is being used in the general sense in this story of modern "meaning" of to get away with it - history of the phrase: www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/scot-free.html
@@ScottishStorytellingCentreEdThanks! This is an excellent site. Except it will now absorb a lot of my time... fun facts you know.