Bonar Bridge Creich (parish) Sutherland Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Story about the Banna, 1904
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/53
Scope and Contents
Story about the Banna, a beautiful creature which was like a woman from the waist up and a salmon from the waist down/ She sat 'on a boulder at the junction of the Carron with the Banna' [Abhainn Charrain/River Carron, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty and Drochaid a' Bhanna/Bonar Bridge, Cataibh/Sutherland] with a 'comb of silver combing her golder hair and a mirror of crystal to reflect her face'. The story tells how she was 'wont to take children with her to her grianan but the 'noise of...
Dates:
1904