Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1860 to c1866
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. The first section of the book contains stories; the next section contains stories and customs relating to seals and seal-hunting, with particular reference to Theisgeir/Heisker/Monach Isles, Eilean Hasgeir/Haskeir Island and the north and west of Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist; the next two sections comprise lists of riddles and proverbs respectively and the final section contains Fenian ballads, mainly collected in An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye, Cinn Tàile/Kintail, Lochaillse/Lochalsh and the north of Uibhist a Deas/South Uist.
Dates
- Creation: 1860 to c1866
Language of Materials
Gaelic English
Conditions Governing Access
This material is unrestricted.
Extent
183 folios ; 20 x 23.8cm
Arrangement
The volume has suffered from a small amount of water damage to the top outer edge.
Physical Location
5.07
- Arthurian romances
- Beheading
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland
- Biography
- Carbost Isle of Skye Bracadale Inverness-shire Scotland
- Cille Pheadair North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Clachan na Luib North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Clans (Scotland)
- Customs
- Death
- Diarmaid
- Disputes
- Family
- Family History
- Fenian cycle
- Fenians
- Fernilea Isle of Skye Bracadale Inverness-shire Scotland
- Fionn MacCumhail
- Food
- Giants
- Griminish North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Haskeir Island North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Heisker North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Hogha Gearraidh North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Hospitality
- Hunting
- Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland
- Language
- Love
- Magic
- Marriage
- Murder
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Poems
- Proverbs
- Riddles
- Sayings
- Scolpaig North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Sea faring
- Seals (Animals)
- Songs
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Stilligarry South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Tales
- Talisker Isle of Skye Bracadale Inverness-shire Scotland
- Trien Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland
- Vocabulary
- War
- Warriors
- Weather
Subject
- Odar (Lochlannach | Viking warrior | beheaded in North Uist) (Person)
- Cameron, Roderick, c1836-1919 (Ruairidh | fisherman | Carbost | Isle of Skye) (Person)
- MacDiarmaid, Duncan, c1846-1881 (shepherd and cook on barge | Fernilea, Isle of Skye and Glasgow) (Person)
- MacDonald, Hector, c1800-1879 (Person)
- MacDonald, Mac Uisdean (proprietor or factor | Griminis | North Uist) (Person)
- MacInnes, John, c1801-1894 (Person)
- MacIsaac, Hector, c1797-1878 (Eachann mac Ruaraidh | joiner | Iochdar | South Uist) (Person)
- MacIsaac, Janet, c1798-1882 (Person)
- MacPhee, Donald, fl 1861 (Isle of Skye |) (Person)
- MacQueen, Donald, c1795-1885 ([Donull MacCuithein] | cottar | Fernilea | Isle of Skye) (Person)
- MacQuien, Christina, c1797-1883 (or MacQueen | domestic servant | Fernilea | Isle of Skye) (Person)
- Morrison, Kenneth, c1800-1864 (mason | Trien | Isle of Skye) (Person)
- MacDonald, Lord of the Isles (Family)
- MacKeegan (or MacIogain | North Uist) (Family)
- MacKenzie (of Kintail) (Family)
- MacLeod (of Lewis) (Family)
- Morrison (Family)
- MacRae (Kintail) (Family)
Creator
- From the Fonds: Carmichael, Alexander, 1832-1912 (Excise officer | folklorist and antiquarian | Edinburgh | Scotland) (Person)
- From the Fonds: Watson, William John, 1865-1948 (Professor of Celtic) (Person)
Repository Details
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