THE SANDSTONE MEANMNACH SERIES

The Sandstone Meanmnach Series is aimed at Advanced Gaelic learners as well as accomplished readers. Recognising that most readers come from an English language background the books open with an introduction that will contextualise and lead into the story.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michael Newton was born and raised in the south-eastern desert of California but gained fluency in Gaelic during a prolonged sojourn in Scotland (1992-1999).

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SGEULACHDAN AN DÀ SHAOGHAIL ANN AN CEITHIR LITRICHEAN

Sgeulachdan an Dà Shaogail draws liberally from a variety of narrative structures, plot devices, idioms, and folkloric motifs in Gaelic oral tradition, and makes many allusions to a cultural inheritance that was once well known to generations of Gaelic speakers.

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EXTRACT FROM SGEULACHDAN AN DÀ SHAOGHAIL ANN AN CEITHIR LITRICHEAN

Se céilidh mhór a bh’ againn; bha an teaghlach gu léir ann, agus torr nàbaidhean a bharrachd air sin. Bha an talla air a sgeadachadh mar bu nòs: grioglaichean òir air na ballachan, gealbhan mór anns an teallach, an t-ùrlar cho réidh glan is gun ruitheadh ubhal bho cheann gu ceann dheth gu dìreach gun fhiaradh gun mhaille. Bha muic-fheòil ’ga ròstadh, pìoban ’gan gleusadh, is na searragan ’gan leasachadh leis an fhìon bu mhilse blas, lasraichean an teine a’ dannsa ann an dearcan gach aon, is fiamh a’ ghàire a’ mire air gach beul.

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