“Argyll’s Highlands or MacCailein Mor and the Lords of Lorne” by Cuthbert Bede (Rev. Edward Bradley of Grantham). |
leurach | “The marriage customs were these: When a young pair had got through the leurach, or contract, and had agreed to get married with the consent of their relatives, a night was appointed for the reite, when the friends met and a feast was prepared, of which all were hearty partakers.” (page 199) |
sgreachan réilig | “a shrieker of a burying place.” (page 204) |
crann tràigh | “… that the fairy cross was also called crann tràigh.” (page 220) |
stike raide | “it was customary to assign him a certain share of the spoil, which was called a stike raide or stike creich – ‘road collop’.” (page 252) |
stike creich | [See stike raide] |
Siol-Ghall | [sic] “ – he whose parents were Highland on the one side and Lowland on the other – was called Sìol Ghall.” (page 271) |
sìol-dubh | plancton. |