Abstract
LEGENDARY LORE has its interest if not its value to the anthropologist as well as to the philologist. It sometimes happens that a word has given rise to a legend, and that the existence of a legend or tradition indicates identity of race, or a common origin of two widely separated peoples. The science of philology in particular welcomes the data in legends and traditions faithfully given in the vernacular, and undoubtedly affords in its turn a scientific explanation of the origin or meaning of some of them.
Yorkshire Legends and Traditions, as told by her Ancient Chroniclers, her Poets, and Journalists.
By the Rev. Thos. Parkinson, &c. (London: Elliot Stock, 1888.)
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LUCAS, J. Yorkshire Legends and Traditions . Nature 39, 50–51 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/039050a0
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