Stewart, Mary, c1801-1877
Person
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
Milking song, 1877
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/8
Scope and Contents
Milking song entitled 'Tuladh a Chruidh' beginning 'Bi buar shiod eir na h aighean laoi so' probably collected from Mary Stewart, age 76, Malacleit [Malaclate, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] also known as MÃ iri Bhreac, sean bhanachaig [old dairywoman]. The song is composed of thirteen lines with the first three being arranged in a separate stanza to the remaining ten. The text has been scored over with note saying 'Transcribed'.
Dates:
1877
Filtered By
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Archaeology 1
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Biography 1
- Birds 1
- Bragar Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Cattle 1
- Charms 1
- Church Buildings 1
- Fairies 1
- Family History 1
- Fish 1
- Fishing 1
- Funeral Rites and Ceremonies 1
- Garryhellie South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Hogmanay 1
- Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Justice 1
- Kentangaval Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Kilpheder South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Language 1
- Mermaids 1
- Milking 1
- Plants 1
- Poems 1
- Prophecy 1
- Protection 1
- Proverbs 1
- Riddles 1
- Sayings 1
- Skeabost Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Stilligarry South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Stone crosses 1
- Tales 1
- Tobha Beag South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Vocabulary 1
- Water-horses 1 + ∧ less
∨ more