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'Wasserlandschaft' #FotoVorschlag
Ausblick vom Hafen auf der Isle of Raasay.

#Scotland #Raasay

'Wasserlandschaft' #FotoVorschlag
Ausblick vom Hafen auf der Isle of Raasay.

#Scotland #Raasay

⚠️YELLOW #Sconser #Raasay 8Aug Due to strong winds, service is liable to disruption or cancellation at short notice.

Source: https://nitter.net/CalMac_Updates/status/2085969777244164165#m

⚠️YELLOW #Sconser #Raasay 7Aug Due to an improvement in weather conditions, this service will resume with the 17:00 sailing from Raasay. However, service remains liable to disruption or cancellation.

Source: https://nitter.net/CalMac_Updates/status/2085750766929580055#m

🔶 AMBER #Sconser #Raasay 7Aug Due to strong winds, the following sailings are cancelled: Depart Raasay - 14:30 & 15:30 Depart Sconser - 15:00 & 16:15 There will be a review at approx.16:30 for further sailings.

Source: https://nitter.net/CalMac_Updates/status/2085719804942418400#m

The enigmatic 1.5m high Raasay Pictish symbol stone, standing beside a road on the island of Raasay and one of only a few Pictish stones to have been found in western Scotland. It is believed to have been carved between 650 and 700. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/raasay/pictishstone/index.html

#Scotland #Raasay

The enigmatic 1.5m high Raasay Pictish symbol stone, standing beside a road on the island of Raasay and one of only a few Pictish stones to have been found in western Scotland. It is believed to have been carved between 650 and 700. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/raasay/pictishstone/index.html

#Scotland #Raasay

The west side of the beautiful island of Raasay, with the Isle of Skye in the background. Raasay measures some 14 miles long by about three miles wide at its widest point and it is separated from Skye by the Sound of Raasay. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/raasay/raasay/index.html

#Scotland #Raasay #Skye

The west side of the beautiful island of Raasay, with the Isle of Skye in the background. Raasay measures some 14 miles long by about three miles wide at its widest point and it is separated from Skye by the Sound of Raasay. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/raasay/raasay/index.html

#Scotland #Raasay #Skye

The start of the inspirational Calum’s Road, built in ten years by one man across two miles of forbidding terrain to give access to the north end of the island of Raasay. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/raasay/calumsroad/index.html

#Scotland #Raasay #Island #CalumsRoad

The start of the inspirational Calum’s Road, built in ten years by one man across two miles of forbidding terrain to give access to the north end of the island of Raasay. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/raasay/calumsroad/index.html

#Scotland #Raasay #Island #CalumsRoad

The Poetry of Sorley MacLean

Dr Emma Dymock discusses the poetry of Somhairle MacGill-Eain / Sorley MacLean at our 2014 Schools Conference

7/8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsfKFpb-_-E&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WaFHzJScr-mtd9vEO8ilBHz

#Scottish #literature #Hebrides #Skye #Raasay #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poetry #20thcentury #modernism

The Poetry of Sorley MacLean

Dr Emma Dymock discusses the poetry of Somhairle MacGill-Eain / Sorley MacLean at our 2014 Schools Conference

7/8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsfKFpb-_-E&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WaFHzJScr-mtd9vEO8ilBHz

#Scottish #literature #Hebrides #Skye #Raasay #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poetry #20thcentury #modernism

“A poem which – in a single Neruda-esque sweep – takes in the beauties of the country & the sufferings of its poor & then sets both against a vastly wider historic background … A triumph.”
—The Scotsman

AN CUILITHIONN 1939
Ed. Christopher Whyte

6/8

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/other_titles/cuillin/

#Scottish #literature #Hebrides #Skye #Raasay #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poetry #20thcentury #modernism

“A poem which – in a single Neruda-esque sweep – takes in the beauties of the country & the sufferings of its poor & then sets both against a vastly wider historic background … A triumph.”
—The Scotsman

AN CUILITHIONN 1939
Ed. Christopher Whyte

6/8

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/other_titles/cuillin/

#Scottish #literature #Hebrides #Skye #Raasay #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poetry #20thcentury #modernism

Thar na sìorraidheachd, thar a sneachda,
chì mi mo dhàin neo-dheachdte,
chì mi lorgan an spòg a’ breacadh
gile shuaimhneach an t-sneachda:
calg air bhoile, teanga fala,
gadhair chaola ’s madaidhean-allaidh…

—Somhairle MacGill-Eain, “Coin is Madaidhean-allaidh” (“Dogs & Wolves”)

5/8

#Scottish #literature #Hebrides #Skye #Raasay #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poetry #20thcentury #modernism

Thar na sìorraidheachd, thar a sneachda,
chì mi mo dhàin neo-dheachdte,
chì mi lorgan an spòg a’ breacadh
gile shuaimhneach an t-sneachda:
calg air bhoile, teanga fala,
gadhair chaola ’s madaidhean-allaidh…

—Somhairle MacGill-Eain, “Coin is Madaidhean-allaidh” (“Dogs & Wolves”)

5/8

#Scottish #literature #Hebrides #Skye #Raasay #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poetry #20thcentury #modernism

A poetry reading by Somhairle MacGill-Eain in Gaelic & English, given at Edinburgh University’s School of Scottish Studies in 1986 & recorded by Alexander Hutchison

4/8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mi9wDZq-wk

#Scottish #literature #Hebrides #Skye #Raasay #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poetry #20thcentury #modernism

A poetry reading by Somhairle MacGill-Eain in Gaelic & English, given at Edinburgh University’s School of Scottish Studies in 1986 & recorded by Alexander Hutchison

4/8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mi9wDZq-wk

#Scottish #literature #Hebrides #Skye #Raasay #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poetry #20thcentury #modernism

Tha tìm, am fiadh, an coille Hallaig…
( Time, the deer, is in the wood of Hallaig…)

“In ‘Hallaig’, in this poem, MacLean, as a Gael, stands firmly at the centre of his world, and, consciously, close to the end of his world. As a poet, he shows us that the particular horizon and times that happen to encircle him, encircle us all.”
‍—Seamus Heaney

3/8

Poem texts via link:

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/hallaig/

#Scottish #literature #Hebrides #Skye #Raasay #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poetry #20thcentury #modernism

Tha tìm, am fiadh, an coille Hallaig…
( Time, the deer, is in the wood of Hallaig…)

“In ‘Hallaig’, in this poem, MacLean, as a Gael, stands firmly at the centre of his world, and, consciously, close to the end of his world. As a poet, he shows us that the particular horizon and times that happen to encircle him, encircle us all.”
‍—Seamus Heaney

3/8

Poem texts via link:

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/hallaig/

#Scottish #literature #Hebrides #Skye #Raasay #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poetry #20thcentury #modernism

“Ever since I was a boy in Raasay, and became aware of the difference between the history I read in books and the oral accounts I heard around me, I have been very sceptical of what might be called received history…”

—Sorley MacLean, from the film “Sorley MacLean’s Island”

2/8

#Scottish #literature #Hebrides #Skye #Raasay #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poetry #20thcentury #modernism #history

“Ever since I was a boy in Raasay, and became aware of the difference between the history I read in books and the oral accounts I heard around me, I have been very sceptical of what might be called received history…”

—Sorley MacLean, from the film “Sorley MacLean’s Island”

2/8

#Scottish #literature #Hebrides #Skye #Raasay #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poetry #20thcentury #modernism #history

Somhairle MacGill-Eain (Sorley MacLean, 1911–1996), one of the greatest European poets of the 20th century, was born #OTD, 26 Oct. A 🎂 🧵

Watch “Sorley MacLean’s Island” via the National Library of Scotland – Sorley MacLean in conversation with fellow writer Iain Crichton Smith

1/8

https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/3141

#Scottish #literature #Hebrides #Skye #Raasay #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poetry #20thcentury #modernism

Somhairle MacGill-Eain (Sorley MacLean, 1911–1996), one of the greatest European poets of the 20th century, was born #OTD, 26 Oct. A 🎂 🧵

Watch “Sorley MacLean’s Island” via the National Library of Scotland – Sorley MacLean in conversation with fellow writer Iain Crichton Smith

1/8

https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/3141

#Scottish #literature #Hebrides #Skye #Raasay #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poetry #20thcentury #modernism

#mosstodon #Raasay #scotland

#mosstodon #Raasay #scotland

The enigmatic 1.5m high Raasay Pictish symbol stone, standing beside a road on the island of Raasay and one of only a few Pictish stones to have been found in western Scotland. It is believed to have been carved between 650 and 700. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/raasay/pictishstone/index.html

#Scotland #Raasay

The enigmatic 1.5m high Raasay Pictish symbol stone, standing beside a road on the island of Raasay and one of only a few Pictish stones to have been found in western Scotland. It is believed to have been carved between 650 and 700. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/raasay/pictishstone/index.html

#Scotland #Raasay

The west side of the beautiful island of Raasay, with the Isle of Skye in the background. Raasay measures some 14 miles long by about three miles wide at its widest point and it is separated from Skye by the Sound of Raasay. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/raasay/raasay/index.html

#Scotland #Raasay #Skye

The west side of the beautiful island of Raasay, with the Isle of Skye in the background. Raasay measures some 14 miles long by about three miles wide at its widest point and it is separated from Skye by the Sound of Raasay. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/raasay/raasay/index.html

#Scotland #Raasay #Skye

The start of the inspirational Calum’s Road, built in ten years by one man across two miles of forbidding terrain to give access to the north end of the island of Raasay. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/raasay/calumsroad/index.html

#Scotland #Raasay #Island #CalumsRoad

The start of the inspirational Calum’s Road, built in ten years by one man across two miles of forbidding terrain to give access to the north end of the island of Raasay. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/raasay/calumsroad/index.html

#Scotland #Raasay #Island #CalumsRoad

Another one from Monday evening, this time looking west over the Inner Sound towards Raasay and Skye. The phenomena named STEVE (see my previous post for an explanation) dominating the sky along with the glow of the Aurora. The Milky Way is visible to the left of frame and right of frame is the double star Arcturus. #STEVE #Aurora #NorthernLights #WesterRoss #Scotland #Raasay #Skye

Another one from Monday evening, this time looking west over the Inner Sound towards Raasay and Skye. The phenomena named STEVE (see my previous post for an explanation) dominating the sky along with the glow of the Aurora. The Milky Way is visible to the left of frame and right of frame is the double star Arcturus. #STEVE #Aurora #NorthernLights #WesterRoss #Scotland #Raasay #Skye

Remote and enchanting, the small village of Ard-dhubh stands on a spur of land projecting north-westwards from the main body of the Applecross Peninsula in Wester Ross. It is shown here with the island of Raasay in the background. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/applecross/arddhubh/index.html

#Scotland #Ard-dhubh #Applecross #WesterRoss #Raasay #UndiscoveredScotland

Remote and enchanting, the small village of Ard-dhubh stands on a spur of land projecting north-westwards from the main body of the Applecross Peninsula in Wester Ross. It is shown here with the island of Raasay in the background. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/applecross/arddhubh/index.html

#Scotland #Ard-dhubh #Applecross #WesterRoss #Raasay #UndiscoveredScotland

Magnificent Raasay House on the island of Raasay, close to the Isle of Skye: restored, damaged by fire, then restored again, and now a hotel and focal point for the island community. Its origins date back to a house built here in the early 1500s. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/raasay/raasayhouse/index.html

#Scotland #RaasayHouse #Raasay #IsleofRaasay #UndiscoveredScotland

Magnificent Raasay House on the island of Raasay, close to the Isle of Skye: restored, damaged by fire, then restored again, and now a hotel and focal point for the island community. Its origins date back to a house built here in the early 1500s. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/raasay/raasayhouse/index.html

#Scotland #RaasayHouse #Raasay #IsleofRaasay #UndiscoveredScotland

The enigmatic 1.5m high Raasay Pictish symbol stone, standing beside a road on the island of Raasay and one of only a few Pictish stones to have been found in western Scotland. It is believed to have been carved between 650 and 700. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/raasay/pictishstone/index.html

#Scotland #Raasay #IsleOfRaasay #PictishStone #CarvedStone #UndiscoveredScotland

The enigmatic 1.5m high Raasay Pictish symbol stone, standing beside a road on the island of Raasay and one of only a few Pictish stones to have been found in western Scotland. It is believed to have been carved between 650 and 700. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/raasay/pictishstone/index.html

#Scotland #Raasay #IsleOfRaasay #PictishStone #CarvedStone #UndiscoveredScotland

Calum’s Road and the ruins of Brochel Castle. On the Isle of Raasay last week #Raasay #Hebrides #Scotland #DJI

Calum’s Road and the ruins of Brochel Castle. On the Isle of Raasay last week #Raasay #Hebrides #Scotland #DJI

On Raasay yesterday and a close encounter with this otter. I had seen another otter just earlier from the roadside but a fair distance away. This second encounter occurred whilst walking along the shoreline. The otter was initially spotted out at sea diving and surfacing before gradually coming to the shore. Amazingly it came out on land and after giving itself a shake followed by a quick dash along the shore it headed straight back out to sea #Raasay #Hebrides #Scotland #Otter

On Raasay yesterday and a close encounter with this otter. I had seen another otter just earlier from the roadside but a fair distance away. This second encounter occurred whilst walking along the shoreline. The otter was initially spotted out at sea diving and surfacing before gradually coming to the shore. Amazingly it came out on land and after giving itself a shake followed by a quick dash along the shore it headed straight back out to sea #Raasay #Hebrides #Scotland #Otter

Calmaccing it to Raasay today #IsleofSkye #Raasay #Scotland #Hebrides

Calmaccing it to Raasay today #IsleofSkye #Raasay #Scotland #Hebrides

The west side of the beautiful island of Raasay, with the Isle of Skye in the background. Raasay measures some 14 miles long by about three miles wide at its widest point and it is separated from Skye by the Sound of Raasay. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/raasay/raasay/index.html

#Scotland #Raasay #Island #Skye #IsleOfSkye #Mountains #UndiscoveredScotland

The west side of the beautiful island of Raasay, with the Isle of Skye in the background. Raasay measures some 14 miles long by about three miles wide at its widest point and it is separated from Skye by the Sound of Raasay. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/raasay/raasay/index.html

#Scotland #Raasay #Island #Skye #IsleOfSkye #Mountains #UndiscoveredScotland

The start of the inspirational Calum’s Road, built in ten years by one man across two miles of forbidding terrain to give access to the north end of the island of Raasay. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/raasay/calumsroad/index.html

#Scotland #Raasay #Island #CalumsRoad #Road #UndiscoveredScotland

The start of the inspirational Calum’s Road, built in ten years by one man across two miles of forbidding terrain to give access to the north end of the island of Raasay. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/raasay/calumsroad/index.html

#Scotland #Raasay #Island #CalumsRoad #Road #UndiscoveredScotland

Today my phone threw up this photo from three months ago. It’s the Sconser ferry arriving to take me back to Skye after a wonderful day’s walking on Raasay (research for a forthcoming guidebook). #Scotland #Skye #Raasay #sunset

Today my phone threw up this photo from three months ago. It’s the Sconser ferry arriving to take me back to Skye after a wonderful day’s walking on Raasay (research for a forthcoming guidebook). #Scotland #Skye #Raasay #sunset

Remote and enchanting, the small village of Ard-dhubh stands on a spur of land projecting north-westwards from the main body of the Applecross Peninsula in Wester Ross. It is shown here with the island of Raasay in the background. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/applecross/arddhubh/index.html

#Scotland #Ard-dhubh #Applecross #WesterRoss #Raasay #UndiscoveredScotland

Remote and enchanting, the small village of Ard-dhubh stands on a spur of land projecting north-westwards from the main body of the Applecross Peninsula in Wester Ross. It is shown here with the island of Raasay in the background. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/applecross/arddhubh/index.html

#Scotland #Ard-dhubh #Applecross #WesterRoss #Raasay #UndiscoveredScotland

Magnificent Raasay House on the island of Raasay, close to the Isle of Skye: restored, damaged by fire, then restored again, and now a focal point for the island community. Its origins date back to a house built here in the early 1500s. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/raasay/raasayhouse/index.html

#Scotland #RaasayHouse #Raasay #IsleofRaasay #UndiscoveredScotland

Magnificent Raasay House on the island of Raasay, close to the Isle of Skye: restored, damaged by fire, then restored again, and now a focal point for the island community. Its origins date back to a house built here in the early 1500s. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/raasay/raasayhouse/index.html

#Scotland #RaasayHouse #Raasay #IsleofRaasay #UndiscoveredScotland

Base camp for the next week #WesterRoss #Melvaig #Skye #Raasay #DJI

The island of Raasay is only a 20 minute ferry ride away from Sconser here on the Isle of Skye. We took a trip there last week. One highlight was the walk up the highest hill - Dun Caan.

https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/skye/duncaan.shtml

The view from the top has a 360° panorama looking across to the mainland and over the sea to Skye. In the far distance we could see the Outer Hebrides. This view is looking over to the Cuillins.

#Raasay #Cuillins #DunCaan #hillwalking

The enigmatic 1.5m high Raasay Pictish symbol stone, standing beside a road on the island of Raasay and one of only a few Pictish stones to have been found in western Scotland. It is believed to have been carved between 650 and 700. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/raasay/pictishstone/index.html

#Scotland #Raasay #IsleOfRaasay #PictishStone #CarvedStone #UndiscoveredScotland