caa a22 4500 378866729 CHVBK 20180305123359.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20030521xx s 000 0 ger 10.1515/fabl.2003.011 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/fabl.2003.011 Brown Mary Ellen How to Read a Legend: An Auto/bio/graphical Excursus [Elektronische Daten] [Mary Ellen Brown] In an obscure early nineteenthcentury antiquarian publication, the Scot William Motherwell poet, journalist, ballad editor (Minstrelsy: Ancient and Modern, 1827) offered a curious historical legend, something he titled The Story of the Palmyarm Ross, claiming its verity. No parallel texts have been noted and the editor of the volume in which it appeared suggested that Motherwell fabricated the text. How then can we read it? This paper suggests that one way to place the text is to interrogate Motherwells lived experience, his habitus, and to engage in historical ethnography. In the process, the author places this study in the context of her own introduction to the study of folk narrative. Copyright © 2003 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG Fabula Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 44/1-2(2003-05-21), 70-78 0014-6242 44:1-2<70 2003 44 fabl https://doi.org/10.1515/fabl.2003.011 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/fabl.2003.011 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Brown Mary Ellen NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Fabula Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 44/1-2(2003-05-21), 70-78 0014-6242 44:1-2<70 2003 44 fabl CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter