大象传媒

Chaidh B脿rd Loch Abar, Iain D貌mhnallach, a chl脿radh le Sgoil E貌lais na h-Alba. Tha sgeulachdan is naidheachdan aige air l脿rach-l矛n Thobar an Dualchais. 鈥橲 e l脿rach-l矛n 霉r a tha innte. Tha i aig . Cluinnidh sibh guth Iain. Ach chan eil na st貌iridhean ann an cruth sgr矛obhte.

Tha mi a鈥� dol a dh鈥檌nnse dhuibh t猫 de na naidheachdan aige. Faodaidh sibh a dhol air an l脿raich-l矛n an uair sin. Faodaidh sibh 猫isteachd ris an aon naidheachd aig Iain D貌mhnallach fh猫in. Agus faodaidh sibh a leughadh aig an aon 脿m. Cluinnidh sibh an dualchainnt Abrach aige. Seo an naidheachd. Tha i mu dheidhinn Raibeart Brus, R矛gh na h-Alba:

Bha am Brusach air a ruaigeadh agus air an allaban mar bu tric a bha e. 鈥橲 e sin R矛gh Raibeart. Agus cha robh e ach na dhuine 貌g nuair a chaochail e. Agus 鈥檚 e gnothach duilich a bh鈥� ann gun do chaochail e cho luath.

Rugadh Brus anns a鈥� bhliadhna dh脿-dheug agus ceithir-deug thar nan tr矛 fichead (1274). Agus chaochail e anns an tr矛 cheud deug agus naoi thar an fhichead (1329). Bha e mar sin leth-cheud bliadhn鈥� agus a c貌ig. Agus bha e air an allaban gl猫 chruaidh agus bha iad a鈥� cur teann air.

Agus th脿inig e gu taigh tuathanaich. Agus dh鈥檌arr e an t-each air an tuathanach. 鈥淕heibh thu sin,鈥� thuirt e, 鈥溾�檚 tu a gheibh. Agus th猫id mi don che脿rdaich leis cho luath 鈥檚 a rinn mi riamh,鈥� thuirt e, 鈥渁gus cuiridh mi na cruidhean an rathad eile.鈥� 鈥橲 e sin a rinn e.

Agus nuair a th脿inig an t-sluagh agus iad a鈥� faicinn nan luirg air an rathad agus air an talamh bha iad a鈥� leanadh nan luirg agus an d猫idh sin 鈥檚 e an rathad eile a bha am Brus a鈥� dol nist gu robh na cruidhean air an tionndainn an c霉l ris a鈥� bheul agus fhuair e teicheadh mar sin. Agus nuair a fhuair e astar fada gu le貌r air falbh bhuapa, chuir e na cruidhean mar bu ch貌ir dhaibh air an ainmhidh a thug air falbh gu grad agus gu luath e 脿 l脿mhan nan n脿mhaidean.

The Lochaber Bard, John MacDonald, was recorded by the School of Scottish Studies. He has stories and anecdotes on the Tobar an Dualchais website. It鈥檚 a new website. It鈥檚 at . You will hear John鈥檚 voice. But the stories are not in written format.

聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 I鈥檓 going to tell you one of his anecdotes. You can then go on the website. You can listen to John himself telling the same anecdote. And you can read it at the same time. You鈥檒l hear his Lochaber dialect. Here is the anecdote. It is about Robert Bruce, King of Scotland.

聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Bruce was being pursued and was wandering without abode as he often was. That鈥檚 King Robert. And he was only a young man when he died. And it was a sad affair that he died so early.

聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Bruce was born in the year 1274. And he died in 1329. Thus he was fifty five [when he died]. And he was wandering in difficult circumstances and they were closing on him.

聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 And he came to a farmer鈥檚 house. And he asked the farmer for the horse. 鈥淵ou鈥檒l get that,鈥� he said, 鈥測ou certainly will. And I鈥檒l go to the smiddy as fast as I ever did,鈥� he said, 鈥渁nd I鈥檒l put the horseshoes on the wrong way round.鈥� That鈥檚 what he did.

聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 And when the host came [looking for him], and they saw the hoofprints on the road and on the ground they were following the hoofprints and after that it鈥檚 the other direction that Bruce was going now, with the horseshoes turned back-to-front and he made his escape like that. And when he got far enough away from them, he put the horseshoes as they should have been on the animal that took him away immediately and swiftly from the hands of the enemies.