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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

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about the places 'Sgriob-han' or 'Sgriob rua' and 'Leaca gorstach', November 1873

Item

Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/26

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Note about the place 'Sgriob-han' that it 'crosses Northton and that 'Sgriob rua' refers to it being 'the trail of the waterhorse red spots when he was losing blood when castrated'. The 'Leaca-gorstach' is the 'spar strip on face of hill east of Obbe.' [Taobh Tuath and Obbe both Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris].

Dates: November 1873

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about trap dykes, 11 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/76

Scope and Contents

Note probably colelcted from Christy MacLeod, Obbe, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris which reads 'Trap dykes are said by the old people to be the footstep of the waterhorse & waterbull.'

Dates: 11 July 1870

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note entitled 'Bionach or Biorach', 1894

Item

Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/48

Scope and Contents Note written by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Bionach or Biorach' describing different words used for horses at different stages of their lives in An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris, Uibhist/Uist and Barraigh/Isle of Barra, including how Bionach' in the Isle of Skye becomes 'Biorach' in Uist and Barra. Also the use of 'Isean an eich' for a foal until six months of age when they become 'Spriodach' or 'foal searach'. He states that a horse...

Dates: 1894

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Story about a red horse and accompanying saying about Beinn Eadar, 1873

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW105/35

Scope and Contents

Story about a red horse set around Maruig [Màraig, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris] and accompanying saying about Beinn Eadar which reads ''S fhada bhuam fhi[n] bonn Beinn eadar, Shada bhuam fhi[n] Beal a ghormail'. A note states that Beinn Eadar is now An Cliseam [An Cliseam/Clisham, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris] and that Beal[ach] a Ghormail is east of the foot of An Cliseam near Maruig.

Dates: 1873

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1874, 1877 and 1891

Note about the places 'Sgriob-han' or 'Sgriob rua' and 'Leaca gorstach', November 1873

Note about trap dykes, 11 July 1870

Note entitled 'Bionach or Biorach', 1894

Story about a red horse and accompanying saying about Beinn Eadar, 1873

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