Tales
Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:
Account of a journey through Am Muile/Isle of Mull, 19 August 1886
Account of a journey through Am Muile/Isle of Mull in which Carmichael describes being in the company of a geologist from London, and the views down the mountain track to Loch Scridain and Loch Ba, and observing a large cairn 'evidently the result of funerals' and a very yellow frog near the summit. He describes the view to loch Ba as 'glorious in the bright sun after the rain the grass sparkline in the sun and every rill laughed gach caochain sa ghleann ri gaire.'
Account of a trip to St Kilda, 22 May 1865
Account of 'Clann 'Ic Illemhicheil' [Carmichaels], 14 December 1864
Account of the preparation of seals for eating and accompanying proverb, c1875
Account of the preparation of seals for eating in Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist, including pressing blubber to extract oils. Carmichael recalls tasting the flesh of a young seal on Heisgeir [Heisker/Monach Isles] and that it was 'very agreeable.' and like venison. The accompanying proverb reads 'Bu mhath am biadh feamanaich aran seagail agus saill roin'.
'An Feumanach' [The needy man], c late 19th century
Tale written down by Alexander Carmichael but said to have been composed by Niall Mor Mac Muirich.
An t-Eilean Uaine, late 19th-early 20th century
Gaelic tale, headed 'An t-Eilean Uaine' (The Island of Mull).
There are additional extracts of a tale headed 'The Melodeous Lady Ford' included on the verso side of two of the pages.