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Riddles

 Subject

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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/CW108/108
Scope and Contents

Riddle beginning 'Cailleach bheag a chota bhain'.

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/CW108/109
Scope and Contents

Riddle for a letter beginning 'Theid i null air an abhain[n]'.

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/CW108/111
Scope and Contents

Riddle beginning 'Ni thu e nas mo le rud a thoir as'.

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/CW108/114
Scope and Contents

Riddle beginning 'Taigh mor mo[r] le cuinleanan oir'.

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

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story entitled 'Turas eile', c1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/7
Scope and Contents 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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael