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George Laurence Gomme. Folklore as an Historical Science
Folklore as an Historical Science
Table of Contents
PREFACE
FOLKLORE AS AN HISTORICAL SCIENCE
CHAPTER I
HISTORY AND FOLKLORE
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II
I.—Frog Prince
III.—Our Lady's Child
IV.—The Youth who Wants to Learn to Shudder
V.—The Wolf and Seven Little Kids
VI.—Faithful John
IX.—The Twelve Brothers
XI.—Brother and Sister
III
IV
V
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER II
MATERIALS AND METHODS
I
II
III
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER III
PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER IV
ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONDITIONS
I
II
III
IV
APPENDIX
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER V
SOCIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VI
EUROPEAN CONDITIONS
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VII
ETHNOLOGICAL CONDITIONS
FOOTNOTES:
INDEX
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George Laurence Gomme
Published by Good Press, 2019
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But his place in English tradition helps us to understand the value and position of tradition in such cases. The traditions clustering round the name of Hereward do not compel us to interpret them as Hereward facts. The historian, however, need not on this account fear for Hereward. He should rather value the traditions as evidence of the greatness of the English hero among the conquered English. They applied to him the legends of their oldest heroes. All that was delightful to them in tradition was attached to their present hero. He was worthy of a place among their greatest. And thus the fact of added tradition brings out the estimate of the worth of the hero to those among whom he lived and for whom he fought.
The traditions themselves belong to far other times, and the facts contained in them must be interpreted from the oldest ideas of our race. It is only by thus disengaging the traditions which have grown round the historical person that the correct interpretation of the position can be attempted, and when that is done we are left, not with a mass of uncertain and misleading testimony about a national hero, but with certain definite historical facts belonging to Hereward, and certain traditions attached to Hereward, certifying to his great place in the popular estimation, telling of facts which do not, it is true, belong to Hereward, but which, in a special sense, belong to the people who were reverencing Hereward.
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