litirbheag: 25 May 09: An Litir Bheag 213




The Little Letter for Gaelic Learners show

Summary: In Raasay there is a loch called Loch na Mnà. That means “the loch of the woman”. It is said that she was a young woman. She was killed by a water-horse. It’s an old story. It was told to Boswell and Johnson in 1773. Ruairidh re-tells it in Gaelic in this week's podcast