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Song entitled 'Oran Sith' collected from Donald MacDonald, crofter, Griminish, Benbecula [Griminis, Beinn na Faoghla] beginning 'A Mhor a Mhor till ri d' mhacan'. The accompanying tale tells how Moire met a fairy who seemed to know her baby. She talked to the fairy and then left her baby and went and hid to spy on them and this is the song she heard the father sing. Additions have been made to the text in both ink and pencil

Scope and Contents Song entitled 'Port Dho'null Mhoir 'ic Raoil Na Ceapaich' collected from Donald MacDonald, crofter, Griminish, Benbecula [Griminis, Beinn na Faoghla] beginning 'Marchaibh (Marsaibh?) gu h-eutrom, Togaibhidh air fraochaibh ri'. The accompanying story which tells how Donll [Domhnall] Mor Mac Raoil [Raghnaill] went to ask MacIntosh's daughter to marry him and he took twelve men with him. En route he met MacIntosh returning with a 'creach' [loot] which had been stolen from him so MacDonald...