Eriskay, 1934 (Werner Kissling)
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- Опубліковано 25 кві 2011
- A video of life on the Scottish Western Isle, Eriskay, made by Dr. Werner Kissling in 1934. The original footage was silent, but audio and subtitles have since been added, to good effect. The footage shows shots of the island landscape, the Eriskay Pony, the Black House, the islanders at work, and in particular, their production of the Harris-Eriskay Tweel or Tweed, including shots of the 'waulking of the tweel'.
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i think that the descendants of these people who now maybe live in tower blocks in glasgow and other large cities have lost something precious that they will never know.These people were happy and any of them who had to emigrate from the island did so heartbroken.I still live in the sperrin mountains in Ireland and the life when i was growing up was similar although not near the sea .We were self sufficient in food and when it came to making our own clothes and repairing our own houses.People look back and say we had nothing but we had everything and nowadays we have everything and we have nothing.I think that means the pressure of modern life, financial stress etc.
Michael Conway oh I couldn’t agree with you more. Thank you for your comments as I feel a stranger in this modern world.
They had community and a sense if belonging
The yacht was called the Elspeth. Kissling had it on hire I think. During the war he was interned as an enemy alien. He never returned to Germany but he often revisited Erisgeidh post-war. He settled in Scotland and died in a care-home in Dumfries in the early eighties. The music was added later. Most of it was recorded from the singing of the London Ghaidhlig choir which had a strong contingent of exiled Lewis girls like Kitty Macleod.
I played in the same pipe band as one Alistair MacDonald from Eriskay. What a grand chap....and a terrific story teller as well!
Brings back old memories. A lovely film with the sounds of the islands and the music. Best of all - the people!
My great grandmother was from here...Margaret McKaskill
This is definitely a hard lifestyle, but rich in community. It seems the more comfortable life becomes, the less we need each other in our communities and the more detached we become. Being comfortable but alone can sure be sad at times.
What a fantastic wee film, thanks for posting this.
Love this video and anything about the islands. I had a lovely school friend who came from Erisky.We lived in Penilee and were at St Georges school in the fifties. Catriona was her name.🌹
I'll need to show my wee Grannie this, she was born on Eriskay in 1935. Looking at the size of those lambs there's every chance her Mum was already pregnant.
Thank you a lovely film.
thank you for uploading this!
Glad you like it.
I was fascinated looking at live history
May I agree indeed with the previous caller who suggested the people had lost something precious,well said absolultly.
Excellent Historic,
their likes will not be there again.
Fascinating.
Thank you so much for this posting, very interesting breed of sheep.
Mary. Johnston. Washes. The. Fleece. What. A. Noble. Lady....
I have pet pigs,sheep a goat and alpacas and I love them love and I cuddle them all
Might as well be a million miles from London. Alba gu Brath...
A great film, I would love to show it to my groups ( I teach natural dyeing and felt-making using our own Shetland fleece, in Cannich, Strathglass. We don't have the internet where I teach- is there any way I can buy use the film? Thanks
Rosie
Gaelic songs
I wonder if it was much the same when Charlie landed nearly 200 years earlier?
Bloody hell 😮
Angus Cumming, you were a handsome man. :o)
Those young lads collecting peat probably ended up enlisting during WW2 :(
Probably in the Merchant Navy but it would be interesting to find out.
Paul Robeson: An Eriskay Love Lilt (1938):
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Charles Edward Stuart landed here in 1745.
Wonderful. Sir. To. Hear. A. Dignified. Remark.in.an.age.of.dross
It seems a much less harsh landscape than that of St.Kilda's and the people seem more like todays people even though they were both filmed in the 1930's.
The difference is probably that St.Kilda's is much more isolated with an even windier climate because of it being so far out in the Atlantic.
Also, the strict cult religion that the people of St.Kilda's had.
Erisgaidh is not really isolated like Hiort (especially today with its causeway) and it has a very sheltered acairsaid. Hiort didn't have that. The Hiortaich were normal Presbyterians.
No protective clothing for sheep dipping, open decks on fishing boat.
Sgoinneil!
Werner is buried in Dumfries
same ass faroese pony close and same life
Similar people too. Many people here have Norwegian blood, and many of the place names are of Old Norse origin. The Scottish islanders, Faroese people, and Icelanders are almost the same people. Varying degrees of Celtic and North Germanic blood.
yes true and ther was some hardy people on st kilda to buth noth annymore Zack K