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A fragment of a song relating to the Cattlefold of Kintail. The poet is looking forward to arriving in his homeland tomorrow.

A woman's love song. She will not survive if she is parted from her beloved, whom she has loved since she was young. She sits on the hillock, looking over the narrows seeing his boat passing.

When a 'dreag' was seen. The contributor saw a 'dreag' [a light in the sky] whilst on board a ship during the war. He had sailed from Glasgow, and saw it when they were near Belfast. A sighting is...

Riddle: Chì mi, chì mi fada bhuam, Trì mìle thar a' chuain, Rud gun riochd, gun fheòil gun anam, A' dannsa air an talamh chruaidh. Answer: Clachan-meallain.

Riddle fragment regarding ice: Thig mi a-null air an drochaid ghlainne 'S thig mi a-nall air an drochaid ghlainne.

Keening, drinking, fighting and other funeral customs. Keening women were paid. They recited a special verse. The funeral cortège had a drink before leaving the house and whenever they stopped alo...

Riddle: I looked through my mother's window, I saw the dead carrying the living.

A story about a man who escaped before the Massacre of Glencoe. Information about a place in Glencoe where the ruins of a house can be seen. The man who lived in that house received a warning abou...

Remarks by interviewer Calum MacLean on his first day in Balquhidder (4/9/58).

Proverb: Is miann le breac a bhith an sruth cas, Is miann le boc a bhith an doire dlùth, Is miann le eilid a bhith am beinn àrd, Is miann le seagair falbh le cù.