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Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. Of the ninety-three folios in the notebook, only twenty-two have been used.

Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing primarily songs and stories collected in Miùghlaigh/Mingulay, Barraigh/Barra, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist and Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis. The main informants are Roderick MacNeil or Ruairidh an Rùma from Mingulay and Penelope MacLellan of Ormacleit/Ormaclete. The bulk of the material from MacNeil relates to the southernmost islands of the Hebrides and covers topics such as bird-fowling, the island way of life, place-names,...

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Note about the song 'Duan Na Muthairn' [Rune of the Muthairn], which was collected from Dun[can] MacLel[lan] Don[nachadh] Ban, Carnan, S[outh] U[ist] on 17 January 1874 that Duncan had heard it from an old woman 'who used to frequent his fathers house and who used to repeat long hymns night after night at the fire side.'

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Song collected from Duncan MacLellan, mason and crofter, Càrnan/Carnan, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist beginning 'Bra bra bleth, Ho ha bra bleth, Beil a chailleach a bhra'. The song is composed of twenty lines and has a number of annotations and amendments in pencil and ticks in ink marked against specific words/lines. 'Text has been scored through in ink and written transversely across it is 'B[ook] 3 P[-] [-] Tr[anscribed] 17 June 1869 A[lexander] A[rchibald] C[armichael]'.

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Song beginning 'Mis an noc a tighinn gar ionnsuidh, A dh urachadh dhuibh na Callaig' [Cairioll Callaig or Hogmanay Carol] collected from Duncan MacLellan, crofter, Càrnan/Carnan, South Uist [Uibhist a Deas].

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Song collected from Duncan MacLellan, clachair [mason], Càrnan/Carnan, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist, beginning 'Mise noc[hd] a ti[ghin]n gar n ion[nsuidh], Dh ur[achadh] dhuibh na Callaig' [Cairioll Callaig or Hogmanay Carol]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

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Song entitled 'Duan Na Muthairne' collected from Dun[can] MacLellan, clachair [mason], Carnan [Càrnan, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] beginning 'Dunan na Muthairne a Ri[gh] na Greine, S Aluin Do Ghnuis da lub iarain'. The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

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Song entitled 'Duan Na Muthairne' [Rune of the 'Muthairn'] collected from Duncan MacLellan, crofter, Càrnan/Carnan, South Uist [Càrnan, Uibhist a Deas] beginning 'A Righ na greine, Is aluinn do ghnuis'.

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Song entitled 'Lorg An Ogain' collected from Donnacha MacIlliallain [Duncan MacLellan] or Donnacha Bàn, mason and crofter, Carnan, Iocar, Uist a Chinne Deas [Càrnan, Iochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] on 10 January 1865, beginning 'Lorg an ogain seach an t-àth, Ceum an rothaid 'se ro-dhian'. The song has twenty-two verses and was transcribed from [field] notebook number I, page 17. Two additions have been made to the text in pencil.

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[Song/Prayer] beginning 'Noc oich a chrochaidh chruaidh, Ceann (crann?) cruaidh ris na chrochadh Criosd' [Criosda Cleireach Os Ar Cionn/Christ the Priest Above Us] collected from Duncan MacLellan, crofter, Càrnan/Carnan, South Uist [Uibhist a Deas].