Now here was I thinking that it was just my age that was giving me a jaundiced view of the histrionics that pass for modern day story telling.
This is the type of telling that may in the dim and distant past have been welcomed in Courts and in the halls of the Big Hooses but I am sure would have gone unregognised by the vast majority of the population.
The straightforward narration of the traditional tales and legends is,I have good reason to know,more appreciated by true connoisseurs and Professors of Folklore.
Jim Carrol and Blandiver hit the nail squarely on the head.