Loch Linnhe
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Loch Linnhe (
Loch Linnhe follows the line of the
Fort William lies at the northeast end of the loch, at the mouth of the River Lochy
.
According to the Bard Fr. Allan MacDonald, an important figure in Scottish Gaelic literature, Loch Linnhe was said in local Scottish folklore to be the home of an each-uisge, or "water horse", whose back could accommodate all the children who wished to ride him. But when they did, the water-horse would gallop off into the nearest lake to drown and eat the children on his back. Fr. Allan MacDonald later recalled that during his childhood in nearby Fort William, "Many's the horse I wouldn't get on as a child for fear it would be the each-uisge."[4]
References
Notes
- ^ Omand (2004), p. 246
- ^ Omand (2004), p. 11
- ^ "Loch Linnhe". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
- ^ Edited by Ronald Black (2002), Eilein na h-Òige: The Poems of Fr. Allan MacDonald, Mungo Press. Pages 5-6.
Bibliography
- Omand, Donald (2004), The Argyll Book, Birlinn, ISBN 978-1-84158-253-5
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