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Excerpt from Deirdire and the Lay of the Children of Uisne: Orally Collected in the Island of Barra, and Literary Translated
The story of Deirdire was written down on l6th March 1867, from the recital of John Macneill, known as 'iain Donn, ' brown John, cottar at Buaile-nam bodach in the island of Barra. The reciter said that he was then eighty three years of age the same age as General Macneill, were he living, the last of the ancient Macneills of Barra.' John Macneill was rather under than over medium height, wonderfufly well featured and well proportioned, and possessed an active perceptive mind. He was not known as a reciter of tales, but his brother Alexander was. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
