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Flyting

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Notes = Contest of insults, often conducted in verse.,Created For = CW,Use For = Flyteing

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Song entitled 'An Spadairean Bharrach', 10 March 1869

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW107/23
Scope and Contents

Song entitled 'An Spadairean Bharrach' [The Barra Boasting] beginning 'An sgaol liom an gille'. Text has been scored out with a note which reads 'Transcribed Thursday May 6, 1869 A[lexander]. A[rchibald]. C[armichael].' Another verse can be found on folio 28v.

Dates: 10 March 1869
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Song entitled 'Cha Teid Mor A Bharraidh Bhronach' and accompanying note, November 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW7/6
Scope and Contents Song entitled 'Cha Teid Mor A Bharraidh Bhronach' collected from Peigi NicNeill [Peggy MacNeil], Brutharnis, Barraidh [Bruairnis/Bruernish, Barraigh/Barra] on 30 September 1870, beginning 'Cha teid Mor a Bharraidh bhronach, Horo thugaibh i hugaibh ise 'n tugaibh eile'. The note which precedes the song tells how Nighean Alastair Ruaidh, who was in Uist and Nic-an-Fhinn, who was in Barra would regularly meet and argue with each other. On one occasion, Nic-an-Fhinn attended a waulking of tweed...
Dates: November 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Verse from An Spadairean Bharrach, 12 March 1869

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW107/25
Scope and Contents

Verse from the song 'An Spadairean Bharrach' beginning 'Och nan och mar tha mi fhein', with footnote indicating it is a continuation of the version of the song on folio 26v.

Dates: 12 March 1869
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael