Campbell, John Francis, 1821-1885 (folklorist and polymath)

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Story about John Francis Campbell speaking to a girl in Gaelic in Poolewe, c1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/83

Scope and Contents

Story telling how when a young John Francis Campbell lived in Pool House at Poolewe [Poll-iùbh, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] he met a girl who was carrying seaweed in a creel. In Gaelic she said 'A Dhia nach robh thu posda agam!' [Lord! If only you were my husband!'] and was so taken aback when he replied in Gaelic that she dropped her creel and ran away and never went near the house again.

Dates: c1892

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

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Subject: Poolewe House Poolewe Gairloch (parish) Ross and Cromarty Scotland X