Odar (Lochlannach | Viking warrior | beheaded in North Uist)
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Story and traditions about seals under the heading 'Roin', c1875
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/28
Scope and Contents
Story and traditions about seals under the heading 'Roin' collected from Major James A Macrae of Valley and Griminish, North Uist [Bhà laigh/Vallay Griminis, Uibhist a Tuath]. The story tells how Odar was a Viking warrior who raided the west coast after the Norsemen had been expelled by MacDonald, Lord of the Isles. MacDonald put up a reward for whoever brought him Odar's head, dead or alive. Mac Uistean [Mac Uisdean] captured Odar at Caisteal Odar and decapitated him and took MacDonald...
Dates:
c1875
Story under the heading 'Roin' about Odar and an archaeological dig, c1875
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/27
Scope and Contents
Story under the heading 'Roin' about Odar and an archaeological dig collected from Niell MacCuiein [Neil MacQuien or MacQueen], crofter and tailor, Middlequarter, North Uist [Ceathramh Meadhanach, Uibhist a Tuath]. The story tells how Odar requested that half of the Haisgeir [Theisgeir/Heisker/Monach Isles] seals should be buried with his head and the other half divided amongst the eight pennylands in Scolpeig and Chill a Pheadair [Scolpaig, Cille Pheadair/Kilpheder] noting that some of the...
Dates:
c1875
Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1860 to c1866
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112
Scope and Contents
Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. The majority of the volume has been used but intermittently there are groups of blank folios. Carmichael appears to have written in the book in the 1860s creating sections of different genres at different stages in the volume, with pages left blank in between to fill up appropriately. In about 1875 he has then used some of these blank pages to transcribe notes and stories but has not kept to the genres sections he initially created....
Dates:
1860 to c1866
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- Customs 2
- Griminish North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Heisker North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Murder 2
- Archaeology 1
- Arthurian romances 1
- Beinn Scolpaig North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Biography 1
- Carbost Isle of Skye Bracadale Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Clachan na Luib North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Clans (Scotland) 1
- Death 1
- Diarmaid 1
- Disputes 1
- Earann Mholach North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Family 1
- Family History 1
- Fenian cycle 1
- Fenians 1
- Fernilea Isle of Skye Bracadale Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Fionn MacCumhail 1
- Food 1
- Giants 1
- Haskeir Island North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Hogha Gearraidh North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Hospitality 1
- Hunting 1
- Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Kilmuir North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Language 1
- Love 1
- Magic 1
- Marriage 1
- Middlequarter North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Poems 1
- Prizes 1
- Proverbs 1
- Riddles 1
- Sayings 1
- Sea faring 1
- Songs 1
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Stilligarry South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Talisker Isle of Skye Bracadale Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Trien Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Vallay North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Vikings 1
- Vocabulary 1
- War 1
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