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Alasdair MacKenzie and Angus MacLeod. There was once an administrator in Balallan called Alasdair MacKenzie. He hated a fellow villager called Angus MacLeod, and accused him of sheep-stealing. Ang...

Two lead hearts tied together. Some woman found two lead hearts tied together inside a girl's pocket. They were thrown out. This killed the love between the girl and her sweetheart.

A propagandist song in favour of the Jacobite cause.

Uncommon words from the Isle of Skye. One hundred and twenty-five Gaelic words which the contributor has not seen in a dictionary, with meanings given in English.

The packman who was murdered. An Irish packman was murdered in Gisla, Lewis, by a local man who wanted his wife. He was buried in Feannag a' Chlàrsair. The contributor heard this from John MacDo...

Dòmhnall Cam and the reivers. Some mainland reivers once came to Lewis. When Dòmhnall Cam heard about them, he went and killed them all. He had a sheiling where he could keep an eye on the sea, in...

The Uig men who were murdered at Loch Seaforth. Some men from Uig were shipwrecked and murdered at Loch Seaforth. Their fate was revealed in verse in a dream that the fiancé of one of them had. Th...

What Aberdeen is like for students. Chrisma MacDonald is a student in Aberdeen and describes what the town has to offer for young people going to university there.

This is a love song in which a woman is singing to her sweetheart. She says that she will not desert the black-haired lad, and that she will not choose the man who owns the cattle. In the final ver...

This is a love song in which a woman is singing to her sweetheart. She says that she will not desert the black-haired lad, and that she will not choose the man who owns the cattle. In the final ver...