. Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . Deer and Hound.—From a stone at Kirriemuir.—Sculptured , PI. xlvi. Sc^ Stanza 15. THE LAY OF THE GEEAT FOOL. 1—Bard. Tale of wonder that was heard without lie,Of the idiot to w^hom hosts yield,A haughty son wdio yields not to arms,Whose name was the mighty fool. 9* Tlie might of the w^orld he had seized In his hands, and it w^as no rude deed. It was not the strength of his blade or his sliiold, But that the mightiest was in his grasp. On his falling on a hidden glen, Wherein he never before had staid, Of loveliest strath
. Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . Deer and Hound.—From a stone at Kirriemuir.—Sculptured , PI. xlvi. Sc^ Stanza 15. THE LAY OF THE GEEAT FOOL. 1—Bard. Tale of wonder that was heard without lie,Of the idiot to w^hom hosts yield,A haughty son wdio yields not to arms,Whose name was the mighty fool. 9* Tlie might of the w^orld he had seized In his hands, and it w^as no rude deed. It was not the strength of his blade or his sliiold, But that the mightiest was in his grasp. On his falling on a hidden glen, Wherein he never before had staid, Of loveliest strath and grass and plain, And sound of the waves gainst each bright stone. (Sec 5.) LAOIDH AN AMADAIX MHOIR. I 5 5. -From a stone in the churchyard of Meigle.—Sculptured Stones ofScotland, PL Ixxii. See note (2). LAOIDH Aì^ AMADAm MHOIR—(1.) 1 Sgeul uamharr a chualas gun bhreug,Air òinid dhan geill na sloigh;Mac meanmnacli nach dearg le airm,Dam bainni an t-Amadan mor. 2* Neart an domiiain giin glilac e Xa lamliaibh s chii bu ghniomli borb. Cha be neart a sgeitli no lainn, Acli an treine bh ann a blii na dliorn. Air tachairt an gleann diomliair dho Anns nach robh e fos roimli riamh, A b ailte srath as fear as fonn, Fuaim nan tonn ri slios gach leug. (Gairloch 4.) 1 $6 WEST HIGHLAND TALES. 3* Lasting long ere we had come,Many a chief is l^eneath his sway ;Another little tale Id tell,Be it there discerned, and it is strange. 4tA day when the mighty foolWas in Lochlans bounds in a magic cloud,Himself and one beauteous dame,As a woman her beauty sufficed. 5 Meeting in a vast a rose ever growing through it,Floods, and strife, and grass, and sound,Eoar of waves on shore of sea. 6 GiLV
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