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Riddles

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:

Riddle for a window, 1891

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/127
Scope and Contents

Riddle for a window beginning 'Is lughaid e rud a chur ann'.

Dates: 1891
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Riddle for hailstones, 1891

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/113
Scope and Contents

Riddle for hailstones beginning 'Chunna mise fada bh-uaim'.

Dates: 1891
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Riddle for smoke, 1891

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/112
Scope and Contents

Riddle for smoke beginning 'Is airde e na taigh an righ'.

Dates: 1891
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Riddle for soot and flame, 1891

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/102
Scope and Contents

Riddle for soot and flame beginning 'Am mac am mullach an taighe'.

Dates: 1891
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Riddle for the seasons of the year, 1877

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/5
Scope and Contents

Riddle for the seasons of the year beginning 'Thainig 4 a nall gun taomain gun luing fear fada fionn fear slatara donn' probably collected from Mary Stewart, age 76, Malacleit [Malaclate, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] also known as Màiri Bhreac, sean bhanachaig [old dairywoman]. Text scored over as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1877
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Riddle for water stoups, 1891

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/117
Scope and Contents

Riddle for water stoups beginning 'Chaidh mi mach eadar dha choill'.

Dates: 1891
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Riddle for wind and rain, 1891

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/126
Scope and Contents

Riddle for wind and rain beginning 'Each dubh is each donn'.

Dates: 1891
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Riddle (without an answer), 1891

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/91
Scope and Contents

Riddle beginning 'Fo'n talamh fo n talamh tha mi'.

Dates: 1891
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Riddle (without an answer), 1891

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/92
Scope and Contents

Riddle which reads 'Co cruinn ri ball 's co fada ri long'.

Dates: 1891
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Riddle (without an answer), 1891

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/93
Scope and Contents

Riddle beginning 'An saoghal air muin an eich'.

Dates: 1891
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

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