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In this video I head to the Scottish Borders to visit Cauldshiels Loch where I retell the story of how American writer Washington Irving visited Walter Scott. Here, Scott told him a local legend of a water bull.
Music by Albert Schofield
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The Jolly Reiver is my project aiming to preserve and promote the forgotten folklore and history of rural Britain. Primarily focusing on folklore and legends, you’ll not find me trying to deconstruct these old stories or trying to rationalise them with science and psychology. Instead I will present them as they were always told by our forebears, and leave the conclusions up to you.

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@jstringfellow1961 Год назад

Absolutely wonderful and beautifully done. You are a good story teller and I’m sure Scott as well as Irving would agree.

@TheJollyReiver Год назад

Such high praise!

@nadiabrook7871 Год назад

Wow!! I've NEVER heard of a water bull before!! VERY INTERESTING video!! ❤💗👍

@TheJollyReiver Год назад

Glad you enjoyed!

@theendofeverything6356 Год назад

Another gem, sir. Lovely scenery!

@TheJollyReiver Год назад

Cheers mate :-)

@markshockley5533 Год назад

I absolutely love English folklore because it is just like here in Maryland alot of Salisbury Maryland s history goes back to colonial times with the settlement of our state.Our national anthem was written by Francis Scott key 2hours away in Baltimore.Locally here a Anglican priest by the name of John Hewitt started the first Church of England here in our area in 1732 and the church still stands.Johns father was the chaplain to Charles the second exiled in France and later executed in the Tower of London.A strong connection between us and Great Britain especially in the colony states.

@BBHC2 Год назад

Yes, the Greenhill Church! I'm orginally from Hebron, MD myself and have old family buried at the Greenhill church graveyard. Lovely place, too.😊

@LandersWorkshop Год назад

Nice work, I didn't know about this meeting of minds between two great writers.

@TheJollyReiver Год назад

Glad you enjoyed!

@RedcoatsReturn Год назад

A fascinating story….great education for me…beautifully told…my dear friend! 😊👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇭

@TheJollyReiver Год назад

Thank you :-)

@connorricketts1323 Год назад

absolutely wonderful beautiful and amazing and majestyley done your a really good story tell and i love every one of your stories and love folklore and mythology this was a beautiful story and instresing tale this channel is a gem glad i found it keep up the good work i look forwards to all the stories you do next and it was really informal

@veronikav3126 Год назад

One more reason to love Sir Walter Scott - so sweet of him to welcome Washington Irving in such a friendly and hospitable manner 🥰 Thank you for the great video and the amazing views you shared ♥️

@TheJollyReiver Год назад

Thanks for your kind comment :-)

@aariley2 Год назад

I hope you can visit Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow some day. Very peaceful and interesting.

@tofufury9437 11 месяцев назад

This is a wonderful video. I love the stories of Washington, and have a deep appreciation of Scott and his work in folklore. Abbotsford is on my bucket list of places I want to see in my lifetime. Thanks again for your excellent content.

@TheJollyReiver 11 месяцев назад

Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed. It’s definitely worth a visit!

@marktime505 Год назад

Very well done! Happy I could contribute

@TheJollyReiver Год назад

Thanks again mate, much appreciated!

@TADER8 Год назад

A cuppa at lochside capped this video well! Another great story. Another tale of history gleaned. Outstanding locale! Bravo!

@samanthalowrey1717 Год назад

Thanks for this what a beautiful place very interesting

@TheJollyReiver Год назад

Glad you enjoyed :-)

@PossiblyNic 10 месяцев назад

Love a good wholesome friendship story.

@Flooride1 Год назад

Thanks for the another great and informative video. Irving had a sister who had married and lived in Birmingham in what is now the Jewellry Quarter. He stayed there a lot while in England and wrote Rip Van Winkle, Sleepy Hollow and Bracebridge Hall (based on nearby Aston Hall) while living in Birmingham. Of course that part of town back then was mostly rural.

@TheJollyReiver Год назад

Thanks for sharing!

@halsinden Год назад

it's nice to see you in these videos, chap. good choice.

@TheJollyReiver Год назад

Thank you :-)

@burningsandsexploration3711 Год назад

Wonderful video! I thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you!

@TheJollyReiver 7 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed!

@jameshoffmann8951 Год назад

So cool sitting where some of the most influential writers once found inspiration!

@joycemiller-bean1814 Год назад

I really enjoyed your sharing of Walter Scott and Washington Irving’s friendship and mutual admiration. And your sharing your own connection to them as you sipped your tea where they may very well have sat themselves was delightful. I have loved the writings of Washington Irving since I was nine years old and my parents gave me a children’s version of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. Author Brian Jay Jones wrote an excellent biography of Irving entitled “Washington Irving:An American Original” if you’re interested. Thank you for your thoughtful and enjoyable visit with these two great writers.👍🏾

@raydriver7300 Год назад

Well told 🌞

@TheJollyReiver Год назад

Thank you :-)

@nancyhammons3594 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for this look into the past of a couple of our favorite authors. I have a collection of Sir Scott's books, and you have inspired me to get Rob Roy out and read it, so thank you.

@TheJollyReiver 9 месяцев назад

My pleasure!

@maccurtis730 Год назад

It is nice to see a positive video on a hard day.

@AdamTurnbull-xd3nf Год назад

been to AbbotsFord twice lovely place

@IntrepidsRus Год назад

Really well done and awesome history.

@BCarli1395 Год назад

Nice work!

@taragraff8548 Год назад

Wonderful video.

@benjamingolden7803 Год назад

You are awesome

@amberswafford9305 Год назад

I’m a huge fan of both Irving & Scott’s works & I never would’ve known they had met, let alone become such fast & good friends. So thank you again for all the effort you put into these videos. Also, I think feeling as if Sir Walter Scott is there in spirit at least, telling the story of the water bull makes perfect sense. It’s very possible the existence of those creatures, or belief in them, however you choose to view it, would’ve been lost to history had it not been for his telling of it to Irving. I’d not heard of them before so the fact I have now, is by your own account, a direct result of that fact. So he is there w you, in the literal physical sense, maybe not but but he is there.

@TheJollyReiver Год назад

Thank you for your lovely comment :-)

@amberswafford9305 Год назад

@@TheJollyReiver Thank you for all the work you do so ppl such as myself can learn their ppl’s folktales & have something on which to comment. ☺️