Riddles
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:
Riddle (without an answer), 1891
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/107
Scope and Contents
Riddle beginning 'Craobh glu[i]geanach glaganach'.
Dates:
1891
Riddle (without an answer), 1891
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/108
Scope and Contents
Riddle beginning 'Cailleach bheag a chota bhain'.
Dates:
1891
Riddle (without an answer), 1891
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/109
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Riddle for a letter beginning 'Theid i null air an abhain[n]'.
Dates:
1891
Riddle (without an answer), 1891
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/111
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Riddle beginning 'Ni thu e nas mo le rud a thoir as'.
Dates:
1891
Riddle (without an answer), 1891
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/114
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Riddle beginning 'Taigh mor mo[r] le cuinleanan oir'.
Dates:
1891
Riddle (without an answer), 1891
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/118
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Riddle beginning 'Tomhais agus tomhais dhomh'.
Dates:
1891
Riddle (without an answer), 1891
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/119
Scope and Contents
Riddle beginning 'Fiodh an Iuchar uisge glas'.
Dates:
1891
Riddles for 'am feur' [grass] and 'ceo' [mist], c1861
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/6
Scope and Contents
Riddles for 'am feur' [grass] and 'ceo' [mist] probably collected in An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye.
Dates:
c1861
Story entitled 'Turas eile', c1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/7
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Story entitled 'Turas eile' in which a father sends his three sons out on a journey and tells them not to return until they see water going up a slope. The brothers stop at several streams but it is not until they let their horses drink that the eldest brother realises that is what their father meant. He leaves the other two brothers not telling them that he has understood what their father meant and goes back to his father and tells him. The story has been scored through as if transcribed...
Dates:
c1870
Three riddles involving sea-life, vessels and rocks, February 1895
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/90
Scope and Contents
Three riddles written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula involving sea-life, vessels and rocks which read 'Se sin a chuir am breallach-breac a thaigh a chonachair, 'S a chuir an conachair a thaigh a gheara-bhric. An t-ioasad.'; Cha robh fuaim mor o shothach lan riamh, Ged 's beag do [chron] smor t tiomlag.' and 'Chaidh triuir gu carraig thill an triuir, 's cha do chairrich a charraig.'
Dates:
February 1895