. Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . nless someexplanation is found, it does not appear how a mancan have a north and south hand, and a western back. J. F. C. From Angus IVIacKinnon, tailor, Dallabrog, SouthUist, who is a little dark-haiied man, with quick-moving gTcy eyes, and lively, kindly manner. Hewears neither shoes, nor stockings, nor bonnet, andseemingly never has. He sings these pieces with con-siderable pathos, and has a tolerably good voice. Heappears to me to be about seventy years of age. Beirbhe. Dictionaries translate Beirblie, Copenliagen, but itis more pr
. Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . nless someexplanation is found, it does not appear how a mancan have a north and south hand, and a western back. J. F. C. From Angus IVIacKinnon, tailor, Dallabrog, SouthUist, who is a little dark-haiied man, with quick-moving gTcy eyes, and lively, kindly manner. Hewears neither shoes, nor stockings, nor bonnet, andseemingly never has. He sings these pieces with con-siderable pathos, and has a tolerably good voice. Heappears to me to be about seventy years of age. Beirbhe. Dictionaries translate Beirblie, Copenliagen, but itis more probably tbe Gaelic form of Bergen, which was formerlythe capital of Norway, which is part of the Gaelic Lochlann, aswell as Denmark. How Bergen may have passed into the GaelicBeirbhe, may be illustrated by the frequency with which bh passesinto g, or gh, and vice versa ; thus, ubh or ugh, an egg; dubh,or dugh, black, etc., oovoog, doo. II. iML. • 16, 1860. SEATHAN MAC RIGH BEIRBH. 287 19 Gur h-e b aimn dhomli lighiim gu teachComhrag nan coig ceudan
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