Men
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
Saying about hair colour beginning 'Aon fhear dha'n te dhuibh', 20 August 1887
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/330
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Saying about hair colour beginning 'Aon fhear dha'n te dhuibh' collected from Neil MacLeod 'am bard'.
Dates:
20 August 1887
Sayings about [little] men, c1892
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/82
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Sayings about [little] men which reads 'Tha easan co crosda ri bodachan sathaidh!'; 'Is measa am fear beag nam Fraigach!' and 'An la sloinne(?)'.
Dates:
c1892
Song about Uamh-an-Oir, accompanying story and notes, 1867
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/42
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Song about Uamh-an-Oir probably collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay beginning 'Na minn bheaga na minn bheaga/theaga, Dol eir creagan dol sna creag' composed of thirteen lines. Uamh-an-Oir is described as starting at Cliata cliff and going under Barra to Gearragaal east of Orasay [Uamh an Òir, Cliaid, Orasaigh, Barraigh/Isle of Barra]. The story tells how five men went into the cave with dogs but only the dogs returned and they were hairless. 'The smith of Loch...
Dates:
1867
Story about a man swallowed up by the ground on Bearnaray, September 1870
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/54
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Story telling how a man who was ploughing with two horses on 'isle of Bearnaray' [Bernera Isle, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] was cursing when he and his horses were 'swall[ow]ed up by the opening of the earth. The hole is pointed out still'. Also noted is that there is a carn at the end of Teampall.
Dates:
September 1870
Story about caves, September 1872
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/156
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Story about caves which reads '4 men ent[ered] Uaimh nam figeann Creaga Lauir 1 a piper had candles Sui Lanauir ex[tinguished] the candles. The dog came out hairless at Uamh Sloc-an-Duine Gearygal.' [Creag an La'uir, and Gearraidh Gadhal/Garrygal, both Barraigh/Isle of Barra].
Dates:
September 1872
Story about the size of men in MacKenzie's regiment, 10 July 1870
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/67
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Story collected on Tarasaigh/Taransay which reads 'When MacKenzie raised his Reg[iment] he had 1000 & only 3 were und[er] 6 f[ee]t many above this.'
Dates:
10 July 1870
Story entitled 'Aird bhea’aich', 15 August 1883
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/8
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Story entitled 'Aird bhea’aich' collected from Donald MacGregor, Baile Garbh/Bailegarve, Lios Mòr/Lismore, about a man called Donald Dubh and his father, in which the 'troublesome' Donald challenges his father to hang someone and if he does not hang them he is to give 'the power of pit and gallows' to Donald. They encounter three men carrying a caber each from the forest and Donald insists that his father hangs one of them. His father tricks him by technically hanging one of the man but not...
Dates:
15 August 1883
Unidentified dissertation on the differences between angels, demons, and men, 13th-14th century
part
Identifier: MS 107/f. 70v
Contents
This folio features a short dissertation on the differences between angels, demons, and men.
Writing This section is written in the same hand as the previous sections. It is late 13th-century Gothic.
Writing This section is written in the same hand as the previous sections. It is late 13th-century Gothic.
Dates:
13th-14th century
Verse from 'Cailleach an dudain' beginning 'An toir thu do nighean domh Chailleach an dudain?', 1887
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/344
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Verse from 'Cailleach an dudain' [Cailleach an Dùdain or Old Woman of the Dust Mill] beginning 'An toir thu do nighean domh Chailleach an dudain?'
Dates:
1887
Verse from the song 'Cailleach an Dudain', August 1883
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/119
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Verse from the song 'Cailleach an Dudain' [Cailleach an Dùdain or Old Woman of the Dust Mill] beginning 'An toir u do mian domh'.
Dates:
August 1883