Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland
Found in 152 Collections and/or Records:
Poem beginning 'Am fac thu each seachad an seo?', 9 April 1901
Poem beginning 'Am fac thu each seachad an seo?' for the safeguarding of animals, collected from W. M. Thorburn [William MacLeod Thorburn] of Skye, Wellgate, Dundee. Carmichael notes it as being 'Obtained my me from [William] Craigie, Oxford of the Oxford Dictionary'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Poem beginning 'Dunolla Dunolla dun nam breagaga donna', 1888
Poem beginning 'Dunolla Dunolla dun nam breagaga (sic) donna' collected from Mrs General Frazer.
Poem beginning 'Gao an iar thar na Feiste' and accompanying note, June 1887
Poem beginning 'Gao an iar thar na Feiste, Ceo is uisge' which is described as having been composed by Màiri Nighean Alasdair Ruaidh to the MacDonalds after a meeting at Rodail [Roghadal/Rodel, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris] at which the MacLeods and MacDonalds quarrelled. A vocabulary note reads 'Foirich = Pestle'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Poem entitled 'Fionn', 1 August 1885
Poem entitled 'Fionn' collected from Murdoch MacLeod, Skye [An t-Eilean Sgitheanach] beginning 'An dara cos aig Fionn'.
Poem for Hogmanay, 19 March 1891
Callainn [Hogmanay] poem collected from Mary Nighe[an] Iain Bhain [Màiri Mhòr nan Òran, Sgeabost/Skeabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye] beginning 'Bon[ach [dine] fuine nam ban, Be siud an roillgerach tiugh'. The poem is composed of four lines.
Poem for Hogmanay, 19 March 1891
Callainn [Hogmanay] poem collected from Mary Nighe[an] Iain Bhain [Màiri Mhòr nan Òran, Sgeabost/Skeabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye] beginning 'Thainig mi an tigh so, Ho ro la ri o'. The poem is composed of eleven lines.
Prayer to Calum Cille [St Columba], August 1883
Prayer to Calum Cille [St Columba] beginning 'A Chal[uim] chille chaird chaoimh', with an accompanying note that 'Trithean' is in Skye [An t-Eilean Sgitheanach].
Proverb which reads 'Bhireadh e òrnais air mhath ghamhain', 1894
Proverb which reads 'Bh[e]ireadh e òrrais air mhath ghamhain' [His conduct would make a bear squeamish] and noted as being from An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye.
Proverbs and beliefs about weather and seasons, c1861
Proverbs and beliefs about weather and seasons probably collected in An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye including that whatever way the wind is blowing at midnight on 'Dialuiain traosda' [Di-luain Traosta or Handsel Monday] that will be the direction of the prevailing wind that year; and the rhyme 'Mios faoillich us naoi la sguaibaig a suas an Tearrach' ['Mìios Faoilich, Naoi latha gearrainn, Trì latha sguabaig, Suas an t-earrach.'].
Riddles for 'am feur' [grass] and 'ceo' [mist], c1861
Riddles for 'am feur' [grass] and 'ceo' [mist] probably collected in An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye.