MacNeil, Roderick, c1790-1875
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Two songs relating to Seumas Sasunach and accompanying story, 8 August 1867 to 17 June 1869
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/36
Scope and Contents
Two songs and accompanying story collected from Ruary an Ruma MacNeil [Roderick MacNeil] aged 88, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay. The story tells how 'Seumas Sasunach mac Eoin mhic ogh an Oll[amh] Illeaich' came to Mingulay and stayed for a year at the house of a man who had a very beautiful wife. He poisoned the husband and he and the man's widow decided to marry she being pregnant with his child. Seumas was in the boat waiting for his wife to be, when he saw her coming down the beach, she realised...
Dates:
8 August 1867 to 17 June 1869
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