The Fairy Bridge
(... or shut your mouth, son of Adam!)
A quick post because ... well, I bit off more than I could chew again - a story printed in Mac-Talla, the Canadian Gaelic-language newspaper, in 1902. I'm having to figure out the language used and translate it into modern Gaelic and English both.
Mar sin ... The Fairy Bridge
Of the Drocht na Vongha or Fuoah - the bridge of the fairies or kelpies, now called the Gissen Briggs, a bar across the mouth of the Dornoch Frith.
It is said that the Voughas being tired of crossing the estuary in cockle shells, resolved to build a bridge across its mouth. It was a work of great magnificence, the piers and posts, and all the piles being headed and mounted with pure gold. Unfortunately, a passer by lifted up his hands and blessed the workmen and the work ; the former vanished : the latter sank beneath the green waves, where the sand accumulating, formed the dangerous quicksands which are there to this day.
from Tales of the West Highlands
Vol. 2 p. 64
A quick post because ... well, I bit off more than I could chew again - a story printed in Mac-Talla, the Canadian Gaelic-language newspaper, in 1902. I'm having to figure out the language used and translate it into modern Gaelic and English both.
Mar sin ... The Fairy Bridge
Of the Drocht na Vongha or Fuoah - the bridge of the fairies or kelpies, now called the Gissen Briggs, a bar across the mouth of the Dornoch Frith.
It is said that the Voughas being tired of crossing the estuary in cockle shells, resolved to build a bridge across its mouth. It was a work of great magnificence, the piers and posts, and all the piles being headed and mounted with pure gold. Unfortunately, a passer by lifted up his hands and blessed the workmen and the work ; the former vanished : the latter sank beneath the green waves, where the sand accumulating, formed the dangerous quicksands which are there to this day.
from Tales of the West Highlands
Vol. 2 p. 64