Blair Collection > Popular tales of the West Highlands > Volume 4

LIST OF STORIES. 459
PLACE. COLLECTOK. REFERENCE.
. Poem 58. Cssianic fragment .
Poem 59 ....
Poem 60. ? Part of No. 59
. Poem 61. Ossianic fragment .
Minglay . Hector MacLean . A long story, part of the ad-
ventures of King under waves.
South Uist ..... A long and curious story, unlike
any yet got. Traced back to
Clanranald's bard MacMhu-
rich.
Glenbarra ...... Romance with measured prose
passages. Rich knight adopts
poor nephew — aunt tempts
him in vain — proves that his
sweetheart is Princess of
Eirinn. King of France
jealous — contrives her de-
struction — murders cook and
puts him in her room — she
is to be torn by horses and
burnt — hero pretends to stay
at home — goes disguised —
rescues her in three fights-
is recognised and marries.
Language very good, measur-
ed prose ditto.
Minglay . , . . . .A widow's son learns to be a
. smith— joins a tailor and a
cobbler — goes to Glasgow and
London — they enlist and de-
sert—adventure of the three
conjurors — adventure of the
six black princesses— smith
wins the daughters of the
kings of Greece and Egypt
for his comrades, and the
Princess of Spain for himself.
Parts of tliis resemble a bit
of the history of Merlin-
part of Sir Tristrem — several
of the Norse tales, and Nos.
4 and 10, Vol. I. It shews
that the smith's art was
honourable. It is a very
good story, weU told, and
the narrator is uneducated.
Skye . . A. Carmicliael . . TliesearefoundeduponOssianic
poems and heroes.
Skye. . Ditto] . . Men who knew Ossianic pieces.
This man, aged 60 or 70,
declares that he has heard
his father repeat nearly the
whole of the published Ossian
as read to him by Carmichael
in 1862.