Ise is siubhal, sìth aice,
Sìnteagan uallach,
Sgoltadh nan tonn uaine
’S a fuaradh air chàch.”
Long aig Callum MacShìomain.
“Ged is math an cala dh’ fhàg sinn,
Gum bu fearr an cala fhuair sinn.”
[6] Few villages in the Highlands of Scotland are without a shï-en in their neighbourhood, and often a number are found close to each other. Strontian, well known to geologists from the mineral which bears its name, is Sròn an t-sìthein, “the nose of the Fairy hillock.”
[7] Bonnach beag boise, gun bhloigh gun bhearn, Eirich ’s big sinne a stigh, i.e. Little cake, without gap or fissure, rise and let us in, is the Elfin call.