Baile Nan Gàidheal | Highland Village, Iona

Shenachas sesson – cultural sharing. Gaelic culture has primarily been transmitted orally. The younger generations learned and absorbed seanachas, or traditional learning, informally and virtually effortlessly from older tradition-bearers. Gaelic society was characterized by a vigorous mental life through which cultural forms were commonly shared. These cultural forms would include: tales, legends, jokes and anecdotes, humourous repartee, stories of witchcraft and second sight, fairy-lore, charms, weather-lore, genealogies, proverbs, local history, rhymes, riddles and songs.

Topic: Tradition bearers

Date: 1985

Reference:  Highland Village Museum P1998.24.2815

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