Word: sgeulachlan
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...long winter nights in the old days, the people of the Hebrides would gather about their fires to listen to a Gaelic sgeulachlan (storytelling). Now the 1,000-year-old stories have been mostly forgotten, and there is little sgeulachlan in the Hebrides. One man who has not forgotten is Angus MacMillan...
Soon, Angus was holding his own sgeulachlan, and his fame spread through Benbecula. Neighbors began coming from miles around to his stone farmhouse on the moors. There, in the smell of burning peat and freshly woven wool, Angus would begin his tales. And everyone would listen, including his wife, though she had heard all his stories before...
...this interests Angus little, though the commission keeps telling him that he is helping to save the Hebrides folklore from oblivion. At 74, Angus wants only to be a good crofter, to keep to his own sgeulachlan, and to tell of oldtime lovers and rogues and kings, ending each story with the very same words: "dhealaich mise rithe"-"and so I parted with them...
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