. Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . do thill Fionn. Choisich eud suas taobh anuillt gus an d thanaig eud far an robh Grainne. Chaidh eud astigh,chunnaic eud da leaba,s thuigeud gun robh Diarmaid neocluon-tach. Bha n Fheinu anabarrach duilich mar a thachair. Loisg eud DIARMAID AGUS GRAIXXE. 49 Graidhne nighean Charmaig nan steud,Nach d thug riabh ceum air an cual de ghlasdarach. The only points in which the tale and poem published by agree are those of the death of Diarmaid. It is so longsince I read Dr. Smiths Sean Dana that I have but a faint recol-le
. Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . do thill Fionn. Choisich eud suas taobh anuillt gus an d thanaig eud far an robh Grainne. Chaidh eud astigh,chunnaic eud da leaba,s thuigeud gun robh Diarmaid neocluon-tach. Bha n Fheinu anabarrach duilich mar a thachair. Loisg eud DIARMAID AGUS GRAIXXE. 49 Graidhne nighean Charmaig nan steud,Nach d thug riabh ceum air an cual de ghlasdarach. The only points in which the tale and poem published by agree are those of the death of Diarmaid. It is so longsince I read Dr. Smiths Sean Dana that I have but a faint recol-lection of the poem. The tale would seem tome to be partly aparody on the poem. These old people are sometimes confusedin reciting these tales, probably much is lost, and from confusionof memory some may be altered. At times they cannot recite atall. Shaw, from whom I got Murchadh Mac Brian, died a fewdays ago, and, so far as I can ascertain, there is none in Islay,Jura or Colonsay, that can recite the same tale now. H. MacLean. Ballygrant, July 6th. From a Stone in the Chcrcetì-ard of St. Vigeans, near Arbroath. Sculptured Stones o/Scotland, PI. Ixix. LXI. THE LAY OF DIAEMAID. T HAVE already referred to a note by Mrs. Mac--■- Ta^asli on this subject, vol. ii. 473. She tells howshe learned Dan an Dearg (the Song of the Eed) morethan sixty years ago, from a ploughman who used tochant it at his work : and she adds :— The subject of the song is Diarmaid 0 Duine, orDearg as he was sometimes called. Diarmid was, as Idaresay you Imow, the progenitor of the clan Campbell,who are called at times Siol Diarmid, at other timesClann Duine. I never heard who his Avife was, butshe was esteemed a virtuous and worthy person ; yetshe had enemies, who wished to persuade her husbandthat she did not love him, and who concerted a plot toprove her fidelity. Diarmid was a great sportsman, asall Fingalians were, and hunted wild boars, which, itwould appear, w^ere numerous in the Scottish for
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