Carbost Isle of Skye Bracadale Inverness-shire Scotland
Cille Pheadair North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
Clachan na Luib North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
Fernilea Isle of Skye Bracadale Inverness-shire Scotland
Griminish North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
Haskeir Island North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
Heisker North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
Hogha Gearraidh North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland
Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland
North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
Scolpaig North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
Stilligarry South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
Talisker Isle of Skye Bracadale Inverness-shire Scotland
Trien Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland
Biography
Customs
Language
Poems
Proverbs
Riddles
Sayings
Songs
Tales
Description
Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. The majority of the volume has been used but intermittently there are groups of blank folios. Carmichael appears to have written in the book in the 1860s creating sections of different genres at different stages in the volume, with pages left blank in between to fill up appropriately. In about 1875 he has then used some of these blank pages to transcribe notes and stories but has not kept to the genres sections he initially created. The first section of the book contains stories; the next section contains stories and customs relating to seals and seal-hunting, with particular reference to Theisgeir/Heisker/Monach Isles, Eilean Hasgeir/Haskeir Island and the north and west of Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist; the next two sections comprise lists of riddles and proverbs respectively and the final section contains Fenian ballads, mainly collected in An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye, Cinn Tàile/Kintail, Lochaillse/Lochalsh and the north of Uibhist a Deas/South Uist.
