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Bòineid-béin

Bòineid-béin

Posted by Abi on Thursday 2nd June 2016

Nearly all of us know about the famous story of Whisky Galore, but it wasn’t only whisky that happened to make its way from ships which travelled past the islands. According to the Fieldwork Archive, fur hats from Russia were to be found on the Isle of Scalpay, Harris, around 1915. Little pieces of history like this are often found on the DASG website.

Bòineid-béin was collected in 1975 and means:

‘Russian headdress. Bha bòinneid béin air Eoghainn. [Ewen had a Russian Headdress] (People on Scalpay 60 year back had some of these headgear: they may have been found through sailors.)’

The words curraic-béin and currac-béin were collected in Scalpay as well meaning ‘Russian Headdress’ and currac-cinn was also collected meaning ‘headdress.’

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