This handsome book brings together for the first time theÝ literary heritage and folk life of the Gaels of Loch Lomondside and the Trossachs, people who for centuries lived on the borders of the Lowlands.Ý Most Gaelic books concentrate on the area where the language has survived the strongest - the Western Isles - and few people are aware that the area around Loch Lomond- side, a short drive from Glasgow, was once just as Gaelic as anywhere in the Hebrides. This book demonstrates the wealth of the literature of that area and brings to life the Gaelic society which survived into the twentieth century.

The primary clan groupings of this area were MacGregors, MacFarlanes, Colquhouns, and Buchanans.Ý Among the materials in the book are clan sagas and historical legends about the struggles of these clans, as well as more domestic materials, such as wedding songs, death songs, love songs, and traditions of religious life.