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"mi fhe 's mi fhe"

Scotland

Archival Reference: SSSA/TA/AT1137/003
Date: 1891
Item category: Manuscript
Aarne-Thompson index: AT1137: The Ogre Blinded (Polyphemus)
Language: Scottish Gaelic
Parish: Perthshire
Collector: Lady Evelyn Stewart Murray
Narrator: John (LM MSS) Robertson
Narrator source: Unknown

Archival Reference

SSSA/TA/AT1137/003

School of Scottish Studies LM MSS 45

Transcript

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45.(26)

Bha sith 'tighinn à Craig Odhar mhan

da Siorghlas; bha e sin air an t-sear

bhant falbh cuide ris. Cha'n fhalbhadh

i cuide ris. Bha e 'foighneachd ris an

t-searbhant c' ainm bh' oirre. Thuirt

i ris gur e "mi fhe 's mi fhe" an t-ainm

aice. Agus thainig e mhan oidhche agus

bha e 'sir' oirre falbh cuide ris. Bha i '

deanamh brochain, thilg i

lan brochain air anns an aodainn gus

na bhod i e. Chaidh e mach 's a [e]

ranaich is sgreuchail. Chaidh e 'n aird

thun na Craige. Chual' na sithean

uile e. Bha iad foighneachd ris co bha

ris. Thuirt e gu'n robh mi fhe 's mi fhe'.

Thuirt iad "O nam biodh aon ghin eile

bha riut, bheireadh sinn orra'.