Proverbs
Subject
Subject Source: Sss
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1874, 1877 and 1891
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108
Scope and Contents
Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing songs, poems, tales, names, vocabulary and expressions collected in the Outer Hebrides [Na h-Eileanan an Iar]. The first part of the volume contains transcriptions taken as Carmichael listened to informants in 1877 while the second part appears to be copies of previous transcriptions of material collected by Carmichael and Rev Malcolm MacPhail in 1874 and written into the notebook in 1891. Amongst the material is a version of the lament...
Dates:
1874, 1877 and 1891
Proverb beginning 'A bean odhar odhar an dorust a soghail', 1877
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/2
Scope and Contents
Proverb beginning 'A bean odhar odhar an dorust a soghail' collected from Mary Stewart, age 76, Malacleit, [Malaclate, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist].
Dates:
1877
Proverb beginning 'Ugh aig eirig leanamh aig aimig is cla[?nn] aig sgalaig', 1877
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/3
Scope and Contents
Proverb beginning 'Ugh aig eirig leanamh aig aimig is cla[nn] aig sgalaig' collected from Mary Stewart, age 76, Malacleit, [Malaclate, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist].
Dates:
1877