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Voyages and Travel

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

Found in 201 Collections and/or Records:

Song beginning 'Nail i bho ho i, thoir liom gin a hi', 28 May 1869 and 16 June 1869

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/62
Scope and Contents Song collected from Anna nic a Phi [Anna MacPhie or MacPhee], daughter of Angus son of old Donald MacPhie, aged 22 years, Carnan [Càrnan, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] beginning 'Nail i bho ho i, thoir liom gin a hi, Nail i bho ho, Ghrian so g' eiridh' [Tàladh Dhòmhnaill Ghuirm or Donald Gorm's Lullaby]. The song is composed of seventy-three lines and contains a number of amendments or annotations. The accompanying story tells how Carmichael got an 'ord bhairneach' from Anna's father, which he...
Dates: 28 May 1869 and 16 June 1869

Song entitled 'An Ridire Leoid', nd

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW152/28
Scope and Contents

Song entitled 'An Ridire Leoid' beginning 'La bha Ridire Leoid, An criochan Lochlann nan ceol caon'. The song is composed of fifty-eight lines, arranged as fifteen verses of four lines each, although the fifth verse has two lines missing. An introductory note reads 'Mar a thainig Leod a Lochlann gu Albain' [How Leod came from Norway/Scandinavia to Scotland].

Dates: nd

Song entitled 'An t-Iubhrach Ur', nd

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW152/4
Scope and Contents

Song entitled 'An t-Iubhrach Ur' beginning 'Thug an t iubrach, Ho ho ì, Huì bhi'. The song is composed of fifty-nine lines. For some lines Carmichael has noted alternative words, separated from the first version with an oblique or in brackets with a question mark.

Dates: nd

Song entitled 'Donl Gorm' and accompanying story about Cailleach Corunna, 29 May 1869 and 15 June 1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/68
Scope and Contents Song entitled Donl Gorm [Dòmhnall Gorm] collected from Mary Ferguson, Cairinis/Carinish, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist beginning 'Naille bho i, Ar liom gra hi naile bho i'. The song is composed of fifty-two lines and is noted as being composed by Domhnall Gorm's 'Muim altrom' or nurse. Mary states that she heard the song from her mother who had 'a large number of songs and lays of gr[ea]t antiquity' and who was known as 'Cailleach Corunna' on account of her many stories relating to Coruna [A...
Dates: 29 May 1869 and 15 June 1869

Song entitled 'Donl Gorm Sleibhteach' and accompanying note, 26 May 1869 and 15 June 1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/42
Scope and Contents Song entitled 'Donl Gorm Sleibhteach' [Dòmhnall Gorm Shlèibhteach] collected from Margaret MacIntosh, tailor's wife, Ceann a Deas Loch Baghasdail/South Boisdale, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist beginning 'Naill i a bho ho i, A ghrian si g eiridh'. The song is composed of sixty one lines which bear amendments and annotations in pencil. The accompanying note states that each stanza of the song should be sung four times. The informant heard this song and 'Mhic Iain Mhuideartaich Na Feill' [see...
Dates: 26 May 1869 and 15 June 1869

Song entitled 'Eala Bhan Na h-Eireann', accompanying translation and charm, nd

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW152/5
Scope and Contents

Song entitled 'Eala Bhan Na h-Eireann' beginning 'Latha chaidh Calumcille mach, Anns a mhaduinn mhoich' and accompanying translation. The song is composed of thirty lines, arranged as five verses of six lines each. After the translation, which is given in prose format, is a charm which reasd 'The mild eye of C[hrist] be on thy hurt, The charm of love to make thee whole'.

Dates: nd

Song entitled 'Laoi Na Buileartaich', 7 April 1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW107/46
Scope and Contents

Song entitled 'Laoi Na Buileartaich' ['Duan na Muileartaich/Muireartaich'] collected from Don[u]l Donullach [Donald MacDonald] age 6, Snaoisveall [Sniseabhal/Snishival, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. Carmichael notes that 'The boy heard this from his grandfather who heard it from his own father when a boy.'

Dates: 7 April 1869

Story about a trip made by mother and child, c1893

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/91
Scope and Contents

Story about a trip made by mother and child, which would appear to have been copied from another source, in which the mother 'burst a blood vessel of the stomach' while in London and although her condition was precarious at first she recovered, returned home and travelled with her adult child 'a good deal in Glencoe and various other places enjoying ourselves very much' returning home 'greatly refreshed' [Gleann Comhann, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire].

Dates: c1893

Story about a wall collapsing on a coffin in Teampull na Trionaid, 20 January 1871

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/160
Scope and Contents Story collected from Alexander MacDonald, Cladach Chirceboist/Claddach Kirkibost, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist telling how funeral was going from Lirinnish to Killemhoire [Liernis/Liernish and Cille Mhoire/Kilmuir] when 'The day came on cur as cabhadh'. The put the corpse in Teampull na Trionaid in the hope that the weather would improve and if it didn't then they would bury it there. When the people left the church the south wall fell down and buried the corpse. The corpse was allowed to...
Dates: 20 January 1871

Story about Alexander Mac Iain ic Leoid and his wife being stranded on Rona, 10 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/64
Scope and Contents Story telling how Alexander Mac Iain 'ic Leòid [MacLeod] from An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye but living at Aoi [Uidh, Tarasaigh/Taransay], was tacksman of St Kilda [Hiorta] and set out to collect his 'rent grain' from St Kilda with his wife Barbara ni Dho[nmhuil] ic Iain oig [née Campbell] and a boatful of skin sacks. The weather turned bad so that they had to throw most of the sacks out and eventually they found themselves stranded on 'Ronai an t-saimh N[orth] W[est] of the Butt'...
Dates: 10 July 1870