Tha am fiadh Iapanach beagan nas lugha na ʼm fiadh ruadh. Tha na leabhraichean ag innse dhuinn nach e beathach sòisealta a tha ann ach a-mhàin sa gheamhradh. Ach chunnaic mi fhìn na dhà dhiubh làimh ri chèile. Bha iad a’ spioladh ʼs ag ionaltradh còmhla.

The sika deer is a bit smaller than the red deer. The books tell us that it is not a social deer except in winter. But I myself saw two of them next to one another. They were browsing and grazing together.

... tabulam filio custodienti dedit, postquam auus necatus est, pater tuus, ut fortunam cum tabula sequeretur, abscessit atque multa facinora audacia generis molestissimi habuit, sed numquam prope Montem appropinquauit. quomodo ibi aduenerit nescio, sed eum reum in carceribus Necromantici inueni.”

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Cormac Mac Fhionnlaoich: Inis domh faoin ‘dreabhlán’.

Gene Ó Curraighin: A, bhál, sin áit ... laftán síos in sna haillt dreabhán sin ailse lastáin síos ina hils agus bhí an féar milis ag fás air, agus luibheanna fosta air. Ach nuair a éiríonns an féar gann ar bhruach na n-aillt, théid na caoirigh síos in sna haillt go bhfaighe/(-idh) siad an féar seo. Is é an t-aon dóigh is féidir iad a bheith aníos, ná caithfidh ar dhuine intheach a ísliú síos ar rópa. Cheanglófá rópa thart faoi na hascaill, agus caithfidh cúpla fear láidir a bheith ar bhruach.

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Cormac Mac Fhionnlaoich: Tell me about the ‘dreabhlán’.

Gene Ó Curraighin: These are ledges where there is vegetation growing, down on the cliffs, and where there’s sweet grass, and herbs as well. But when grass becomes scarce up on the clifftop, the sheep would climb down the cliff to reach the grass. The only way to get them up again was to lower someone down on a rope. A rope was tied around their toroso. You needed a few strong men on the clifftop.