Morison, John, fl1630-1708 (tacksman | Bragar | Isle of Lewis)

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1874, 1877 and 1891

Series

Identifier: Coll-97/CW108

Scope and Contents Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing songs, poems, tales, names, vocabulary and expressions collected in the Outer Hebrides [Na h-Eileanan an Iar]. The first part of the volume contains transcriptions taken as Carmichael listened to informants in 1877 while the second part appears to be copies of previous transcriptions of material collected by Carmichael and Rev Malcolm MacPhail in 1874 and written into the notebook in 1891. Amongst the material is a version of the lament...

Dates: 1874, 1877 and 1891

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

Poem about an over-talkative wife, 1874 and 1891

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/154

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Poem in Gaelic by John Moireson [John Morison] of Bragar [Eilean Leòdhais /Isle of Lewis] about a woman 'whose tongue was ever on the gas' which begins 'Toiseach tus ann/air an-rath' and an English version which begins 'The first sign of strife-misfortune'. The poem and its translation are each somposed of four lines.

Dates: 1874 and 1891

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

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Morison, John, fl1630-1708 (tacksman | Bragar | Isle of Lewis)

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1874, 1877 and 1891

Poem about an over-talkative wife, 1874 and 1891

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