Proverbs
Found in 106 Collections and/or Records:
Account of the preparation of seals for eating and accompanying proverb, c1875
Account of the preparation of seals for eating in Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist, including pressing blubber to extract oils. Carmichael recalls tasting the flesh of a young seal on Heisgeir [Heisker/Monach Isles] and that it was 'very agreeable.' and like venison. The accompanying proverb reads 'Bu mhath am biadh feamanaich aran seagail agus saill roin'.
Disticha Catonis, 14th century
Expressions and a proverb, 1891
Expressions of contrasting states: 'bho aoin gu anmhuinn', 'bho reite gu areite' and 'bho shocair gu an-shocair' and a proverb beginning 'Is truagh nach robh mo bhathadh air bean a ghlugain'.
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1864 to
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, August 1903 to July 1904
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1864-1869
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing proverbs; Fenian tales; stories about shipwrecks; Roderick Morison 'An Clàrsair Dall' and his father John Morison tacksman of Bragar; the Beaton family; and about sea-faring; notes about islands in the Sound of Harris; and a small amount of vocabulary.
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1874, 1877 and 1891
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1901
Fragment of a proverb beginning 'Bleadhan t sneachda bhuidhe', 22 August 1903
Fragment of a proverb probably collected from Mary MacRae, Dùnan, Letterfearn, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty, which reads 'Bleadhan t sneachda bhuidhe? Earrach Duibh a Challa? The snows of gr[e]at'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.