Poems
Found in 195 Collections and/or Records:
Verse or saying beginning 'Fad a leugan chan na laogh' and accompanying note, 22 August 1903
Verse or saying probably collected from Mary MacRae, Dùnan, Letterfearn, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty, beginning 'Fad a leugan chan na laogh, 'S fad a thaobh dha na mheann'. The verse consists of four lines. The accompanying note reads 'These is how they were tied and length of the ciopan' [tether stake]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Verse possibly for a charm beginning 'Chai[dh] cuileag na mo shuil', August 1903
Verse possibly for a charm beginning 'Chai[dh] cuileag na mo shuil, B fhearr leom i dhol na mo ghlun'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Vocabulary note about the word 'Bralosgadh' and accompanying poem, 1895
Vocabulary note written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula about the word 'Bralosgadh' describing it as 'a great heap of every sort of fuel or combustibles collected on an eminence on marriage occasions or on the coming of age of Chiefs'. He states that 'bonfire' is the closest word to it he knows and as an example of its use gives a saying and a poem, which begins 'Nuair a chaidh iad do'n ghleann, 'sa leag iad damh sheang'.
Vocabulary note and verse probably representing birdsong, c1892
Vocabulary note which reads 'Bir-ghia Bireghian = Rain Goose from bir = water and geadh = goose' and verse probably representing birdsong beginning 'Bir! Bir! Bir! An lin a traghadh'. The verse is composed of ten lines and a translation is given. The text has been scored through in pencil as if transcribed elsewhere.
Vocabulary note for Grigne [colony or number] and accompanying verse, 10 February 1870
Vocabulary note probably collected from Margaret MacDonald, aged 79 years, Malacleit/Malaclete, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist for Grigne describing it as a colony or a number and in some places stating that a sieve was called a grigne. What appears to be a verse reads 'Rionag an Righ, Rionag na madaine, Rionag a bhauch[aille], Nighean ri mheangain sa triuir leam sa cu sa gille sa cocair.'