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Custom entitled 'Goisteachd' and 'Blood Brotherhood', 9 January 1895

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/70
Scope and Contents Custom written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Goisteachd' and additionally entitled 'Blood Brotherhood' by Alexander Carmichael. MacRury recalls how if two boys drew blood while playing then one would put blood on the back of the hand of the other and say 'roinn [rinn] mi goisteachd riut' and that would mean that they 'were friends in all plays henceforth', although frequently the bond was short-lived MacRury remarks 'there was something in it as the...
Dates: 9 January 1895
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Deleted vocabulary note which reads 'Brac = Būirean feidh "Nach grand am brac tha aige"', 1894

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/148
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Deleted vocabulary note which reads 'Brac = Būirean feidh "Nach grand am brac tha aige"'. The text has been deleted in ink.

Dates: 1894
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Deleted vocabulary note which reads 'Munegin, Muileag, Mungeag = Mermaid Maighdean mhara', 1894

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/147
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Deleted vocabulary note which reads 'Munegin, Muileag, Mungeag = Mermaid Maighdean mhara'. The text has been deleted in pencil.

Dates: 1894
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Early Gaelic vocabulary list, c late 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW454
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Early Gaelic vocabulary list.

Dates: c late 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Etymological note on 'Glas' as 'water' and 'Dubh-ghlas' for 'Douglas', c1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/109
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Etymological note on 'Glas' as 'water' and 'Dubh-ghlas' for 'Douglas', including mentions of 'Anaghlas = milk and water' and 'Glas-sheile = water brash' and a note that there is a 'Dubh-ghlas in Leanndaidh Lennox where some say Arthur fought his 3[r]d 4th and 5th battles.' [Douglas Water, Siorrachd Dhùn Breatainn/Dunbartonshire]

Dates: c1892
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Expression beginning 'Buil an suil, buil an glun', September 1884

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/289
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Expression collected from Donald MacPhail, grocer, Quay, Oban [An t-Òban, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] which reads 'Buil an suil, buil an glun, buil an uilinn Cha be chradh a chniodachadh.'

Dates: September 1884
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Expression for a talkative woman, September 1884

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/288
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Expression for a talkative woman collected from Donald MacPhail, grocer, Quay, Oban [An t-Òban, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] which reads 'Bu tu an gloc air garadh'.

Dates: September 1884
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Expressions connected to labouring, September 1884

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/285
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Expressions connected to labouring collected from Donald MacPhail, grocer, Quay, Oban [An t-Òban, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] including 'Diluain is the day to begin all work' and that 'amhlaireac' means provoking playfulness

Dates: September 1884
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Field and transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1864-1867

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW113
Scope and Contents Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing field and transcribed material. The notebook is inscribed on the front inside cover with the following: 'Scrap Book MS No1 Alex[ander] Carmichael (of Lismore) Inland Revenue Lochmaddy N[orth] Uist] 1864'. On the recto side of the fly leaf is written 'Angus MacDonald Staoinebrig tale teller' and on the verso side of the fly leaf is written 'Bought at Drew's Saint columb Cornwall this 17 day of Nov[ember] 1864 A. A. Carmichael p2/3'....
Dates: 1864-1867
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael probably while he lived at 31, Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, as this address is written in ink on the first folio. Written on the inside front cover but heavily scored is text which reads 'Mrs Malcolm MacLeod, [- Islay], widow of Mal[colm] MacLeod [Loch-]. The majority of the notebook contains material collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/ Islay relating folklore and natural history about the birds, fish, shellfish and animals found in and...
Dates: 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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MacRury, John Ewen, c1853-1909 (Torlum | Benbecula) 29
Carmichael, Alexander, 1832-1912 (Excise officer | folklorist and antiquarian | Edinburgh | Scotland) 14
MacDonald (of Clanranald) 12
MacAulay, John, fl1887 (Iain | fisherman | Gairloch | Ross and Cromarty | and Edinburgh) 11
Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille) 7
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MacPhee, Donald, c1816-1869 7
Cameron, Duncan, c1818-1900 (police officer | Lochaline | Argyllshire) 6
Currie, Donald, c1826- (crofter | Islay) 6
MacDonald (of Sleat) 6
MacPhail, Donald, fl1884 (grocer | Quay | Oban | Argyllshire) 6
MacIsaac, Hector, c1797-1878 (Eachann mac Ruaraidh | joiner | Iochdar | South Uist) 5
MacLellan, Duncan, c1816-1893 5
MacLeod (of Dunvegan) 5
MacMhuirich (hereditary bards of Clanranald) 5
MacNeil, Roderick, c1790-1875 5
MacAulay, Angus, c1788-fl1870 (An Cnoc | Isle of Lewis | Ross and Cromarty | Scotland) 4
MacInnes, John, c1801-1894 4
MacIsaac, Janet, c1798-1882 4
MacRae, Mary, fl1903 4
Livingstone, Baron of Bachuil (Lismore) 3
MacDonald, Ann, fl1901 (Achadoire | Gleann Spean | Lochaber) 3
MacDonald, Flora, 1722-1790 (Jacobite) 3
MacIntosh, Catherine, c1807- 3
MacKay, Hugh, fl1393 (lieutenant to MacDonald of Islay | Rinns of Islay) 3
MacLean, Marion, 1843-1927 3
MacPherson, John, c1820-1885 (Iain Pearson | cottar | Kentangaval | Isle of Barra) 3
Northern Lighthouse Board. Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses (1786-) 3
Stewart (of Appin) 3
Boyd, Mary, c1844-1915 2
Bride, Saint, c453-525 (Kildare) 2
Campbell (Scalpay) 2
Campbell (of Argyll) 2
Campbell, Ann (nian Dhonil ic Iain Oig | composer of the song 'Ailean Duinn') 2
Campbell, James, c1806-1876 ('Seumas Chailein' | fisherman | Kentangaval | Isle of Barra) 2
Campbell, Margaret, c1871-1939 (or Stewart) 2
Carmichael (Appin) 2
Chisholm (travelling people) 2
Chrosda, Colla ([Guala] | seer | Bonawe | Argyllshire) 2
Clerk, Archibald, Rev, 1813-1887 (minister | Kilmallie | Inverness-shire) 2
Free Church of Scotland (1843-:) 2
Gunn, Angus, c1788-1875 (crofter) 2
MacAulay (of Brenish | Isle of Lewis) 2
MacAulay, Aulay, Rev, 1673-1758 (minister | Isle of Harris) 2
MacCodrum, Iain [John], c1693-1777 (Iain mac Fhearchair | Scottish Gaelic poet) 2
MacDonald (of Boisdale | South Uist) 2
MacDonald, Alexander, c1820-1894 2
MacDonald, Archibald, c1750-c1815 (Gille na Ciotaig | bard and satirist | Uist) 2
MacDonald, Hector, c1800-1879 2
MacDonald, Lord of the Isles 2
MacDonald, Mac Uisdean (proprietor or factor | Griminis | North Uist) 2
MacDonald, Margaret, fl1870 (Malacleit | North Uist | Inverness-shire) 2
MacDonald, Marshal of France | Duke of Tarentum, 1765-1840 2
MacFarlane, Catherine, c1806-1880 2
MacLean, Ciorstan, c1855-1937 2
MacLellan, Penelope, 1796-1873 2
MacLeod (of Berneray) 2
MacLeod (of Lewis) 2
MacMillan, Mary, c1825-1883 (domestic servant | Lionacuidhe | South Uist) 2
MacNeil, Hector, c1825 2
MacNiven, Duncan, 1804-1895 (Donnachadh Phadruig | schoolmaster | Airds | Taynuilt | Argyllshire) 2
MacPhie, Barbara, c1800-1880 (or MacPhee | pauper | Drimsdale | South Uist) 2
MacRae, Mary, c1790-1879 (dairymaid) 2
Morrison, Kenneth, c1800-1864 (mason | Trien | Isle of Skye) 2
Stewart, Mary, c1801-1877 2
Stuart, Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir, Prince, 1720-1788 ('Bonnie Prince Charlie' | 'The Young Pretender') 2
Abercromby, Sir Ralph, 1734-1801 (lieutenant -general | politician | Menstrie | Clackmannanshire | Scotland) 1
Am Muilear Beag, fl1745 (miller | fought at Battle of Culloden | Inverfolla | Argyllshire) 1
Armstrong, Robert, 1817-1870 (photographer | Edinburgh) 1
Baleloch SSPCK School (-1801) 1
Beaton (or Paton | medical practitioners | South Uist) 1
Beaton, John, 1842-1924 (pauper | Badan Mhugaidh | Ross and Cromarty) 1
Black, John, c1784-1872 (pauper | probably Iain Ruadh or John Roy | Killean | Lismore | Argyllshire) 1
Board of Trade (1786-:) 1
Brendan, Saint (the Elder) 1
British Archaeological Association (1843-) 1
Cameron, Mary, 1829-1902 (pauper | Borve | Isle of Barra) 1
Cameron, Rev Alexander, 1827-1888 (Free Church Minister) 1
Cameron, Roderick, c1836-1919 (Ruairidh | fisherman | Carbost | Isle of Skye) 1
Campbell (of Airds) 1
Campbell (of Barcaldine) 1
Campbell (of Inverawe) 1
Campbell (of Islay) 1
Campbell (of Taransay) 1
Campbell, Andrew, c1867-1932 (tinker | Perthshire) 1
Campbell, Anthony, 1825-1904 (fisherman and crofter | Kentangaval | Barra) 1
Campbell, Archibald, -c1650 (fifth of Inverawe | Argyllshire) 1
Campbell, Colin, 1708-1752 ('Cailean Ruadh' | 'Cailean Uaine' | 'The Red Fox' | Cailean Ghlinn Iubhair | Glenure | Argyllshire) 1
Campbell, Cristiane, c1570 1
Campbell, Donald, Sir, -1651 (of Airds) 1
Campbell, Dougall, -c1579 (fourth of Inverawe | Argyllshire) 1
Campbell, John, -c1606 (Iain Dubh nan Creach | tutor of Inverawe | Argyllshire) 1
Campbell, Kenneth, Captain (of Uidh | Taransay | and Rodel | Isle of Harris) 1
Campbell, Robert, 1630-1696 (fifth of Glenlyon) 1
Carmichael (Taylochan | Lismore | Argyllshire) 1
Carmichael, Dugald, Captain, 1772-1827 1
Carmichael, Duncan, fl1870 (Lismore | Argyllshire) 1
Carmichael, Eon Kenneth, 1872-1926 ([Eoghan] | son of Alexander Carmichael folklorist and antiquarian) 1
Carmichael, Mary Frances, c1843-1928 1
Carmichael, Mary, c1812-1889 (Druimavuic | Glencreran | Argyllshire) 1
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