Some fascinating examples of information from a distant past that have
survived through oral tradition is mentioned by the linguist R. M. W. Dixon in his
book about the Australian language Dyirbal, The Dyirbal Language of North
Queensland. On p. 29, Dixon writes that «beneath the veneer of fantasy, some
[Dyirbal] myths may provide accurate histories of events in the distant past of the
people», and this is just one example: