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Saying about hair colour beginning 'Aon fhear dha'n te dhuibh' collected from Neil MacLeod 'am bard'.

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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(?)'.

Scope and Contents 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...

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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.

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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].

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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.'

Scope and Contents 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...

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This folio features a short dissertation on the differences between angels, demons, and men.

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This section is written in the same hand as the previous sections. It is late 13th-century Gothic.

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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?'

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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'.