Kings and rulers
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:
Story entitled 'Iain Mac An Alabanaich (a dh'fhalbh a' Troantairnaish)', June 1861
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/29
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Story entitled 'Iain Mac An Albanaich (a dh'fhalbh a' Troantairnaish)' collected from Domhnull Mac Cuiein [Donald MacQueen], Fearan na leth, who learned it from the miller at Talamhsgeir [Fearann an Leagha/Fernilea and Talaisgeir/Talisker, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye] about 60 years previously [c1800]. It is a long tale which tells of the adventures of Iain the clever son of Raoghal Domhnallach [Ronald MacDonald] of Trotaranais [Tròndairnis/Trotternish, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle...
Dates:
June 1861
Story entitled 'L[aoidh] Amadan mhoir', c1872
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/172
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Story entitled 'L[aoidh] Amadan mhoir' [The Story of the Lay of the Great Fool] in which the king's son is under a spell and cannot be brought out of it. Anyone who tries to cure him is required to stay three nights, but each person is found dead except for the Amadan Mor [the great fool] 'because he was true to his trust'.
Dates:
c1872
Story entitled 'Mac a Ghobhain', 6 February 1861
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/18
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Story entitled 'Mac a Ghobhain' collected from William [MacKenzie], Carbost [Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. At the beginning of the story Carmichael notes 'Already in print page 84 Volum[e] 1st'. The story tells how the blacksmith's son asks the blacksmith to make him an iron stick. The blacksmith makes one, which is not strong enough but the second one is just right and so the blacksmith's son goes off with the ambition to make something of himself. He gets a job as a...
Dates:
6 February 1861
Story entitled 'Niean an Ri', c1872
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/66
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Story entitled 'Niean an Ri' [Nighean an Rìgh / The King's Daughter]. At the end of the story Carmichael notes 'As a parallelt (sic) to this see Gleann a Chait Chao'aich in Book No [-]'.
Dates:
c1872
Story entitled 'Sgialac Fhinn', 9 May 1866
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW104/21
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Story entitled 'Sgialac Fhinn' [Sgeulachd Fhinn or The Story of Fionn] collected from Catrina Nic Cuidhein nighean Lachlain Ruari [Catrìona or Catherine MacQuien], [Clachan na Luib/Clachan a' Ghluip/Clachan an Lùib, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist]. The story begins with a battle between the Fenians and the Lochlannaich [Vikings] in which the Lochlannaich prevail and take as prisioner Cumhail, a skilled warrior. While in Ireland some Lochlannaich talk to Cumhail's sister and realise that she is...
Dates:
9 May 1866
The story of 'Fionladh Choinnachain' and accompanying note, c1862
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/6
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The story of 'Fionladh Choinnachain' and accompanying note which states that the reciter, who is not named, 'heard the story from an old man Donull MacPhee [Donald MacPhee] who lived at Talamh-sgeir [Talaisgeir/Talisker, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye], a man the like of whom he never at all heard for Sgialacun [sgeulachdan or tales]. The reciter remembers only a mere fraction of what he heard'. The story was collected at Ferann-an-le [Fernilea] on 21 February 1862. The story is about...
Dates:
c1862
Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1864-1869
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW104
Scope and Contents
Transciption notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. The inside front cover is inscribed in ink with 'Bought at Wadebridge Cornwall Dec[ember] 1 1864 p 1/6 A A Carmichael' and the opposite page has 'A A Carmichael' written on it in pencil. The notebook contains Fenian songs or tales mainly collected in Uibhist a Deas/South Uist and Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula, some of which are repeated in full or in part. These include 'Laoidh na Muileartaich', 'Duan an Deirg' and 'A' Bhraoin Chaorain'....
Dates:
1864-1869