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Selections from the Lyrics,
Songs, and Elegies of Glen-
moriston Bards.
HEN Highland literature was almost
all oral, the Bard occupied an im-
portant place. He was the Chiefs
family historian, as well as Bard. By him,
traditionally, as well as in verse, clan history
was transmitted. Therefore to the songs and
the narratives of the Bards we owe much of the
knowledge we have of the past history of the
Highlands and Highland clans. In some in-
stances the Bardic office was hereditary, but
according to Horace, as the poetic gift is not so,
the office of Seanchie or family historian, was
generally joined to it. So when the Bardic
gift may have disappeared in any one of the

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Reminiscences, historical and traditional of the Grants of Glenmoriston
DescriptionWith selections from the songs and elegies of their bards. By the Rev. A. Sinclair. Edinburgh : Maclachlan & Stewart, 1887.
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DescriptionA selection of almost 400 printed items relating to the history of Scottish families, mostly dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes memoirs, genealogies and clan histories, with a few produced by emigrant families. The earliest family history goes back to AD 916.