#scottish agate

[boylerpf]

Arts & Crafts Scottish Montrose Agate Ring in Silver

Source - Boylerpf.com

[bebemoon]

look for the name: PARKER

@spookylilmoonpie

clarissa teiniker spiderweb fine knitted jumper

dolce & gabbana full zip mod cargo pants, c. 2ooo's

vivienne westwood tartan print "scottish cell" quilted handbag

marland backus silver agate necklace

marsèll black carro buffed leather ankle-high boots

[wildbeautifuldamned]

BEAUTIFUL SCOTTISH STERLING SILVER AGATE SNUFF BOX c1850 STUNNING ANTIQUE 64g ebay thesilversquirrel

[normal-internet-user]

(me and my friend both share this account at 🍈)

tha thu airidh air means You deserve this in Scottish Gaelic! and her version was tá sé tuillte agat! which is Irish.

congrats on 400 btw.

Thank you for the congrats! Someone translated it for me in the comments of the original post! You and your friend are so sweet!

[legacygirlingreen]

24,55,62 🩷

I apologize for taking forever to answer, I really wanted to put a lot of thought behind my answers 💚

24. Favorite crystal?

Oh my this is difficult for me since I use a lot of crystals for a variety of things… I have always felt a strong pull towards working with jaspers (particular ocean or dragon jasper). Fluorite was one of my first crystals and I still use it mediation. As of late I’ve been reaching a lot for serpentine since it balances the heart chakra and I have a blood disorder/cardiovascular disease.

Putting crystal work and meditation aside… I really love rings and wearing jewelry. I am a huge fan of my emerald, moss agate and moonstone rings. I also have a ring made of real Helenite (the actual one made from the mount st Helen eruption) that was gifted to me by my mother and I love it’s bright green color 💚

55. favorite fairy tale?

Im a sucker for rapunzel… I grew up loving the Barbie film and then when Disney did tangled… I know the actual fairy tale is quite different than the kid friendly versions but still. Massive love for rapunzel.

62. seven characters you relate to?

Leslie Knope from parks and rec : I have always been told one of the few things I’m good at is gift giving. My partner actually calls me Leslie knope bc he swears he’s never met someone who has such a strong gift giving love language.

Anakin Skywalker: Ever since childhood I’ve felt quite a kinship with anakin since he was sort of shoved into a world of expectations without having much choice in the matter. I had to grow up quickly due to family circumstances and lost out on a normal childhood. Feeling a constant struggle with my anger and fear… gravitating towards anakin wasn’t that difficult.

Merida : not only did a lot of people call me this in high school because my more Irish/Scottish accent and routes (not to mention my red hair) but I’ve also grown up quite rebellious and have a unique relationship with my mother. I even have a bear tattoo for her since we both love the film. I also have several bows and used to be on a shooting team!

Amy March (little women): Amy, while the younger of the March sisters, I have often felt was misunderstood in literary history. Seeing the more recent adaption of the film, I am so glad to finally have a version of the literary character I love so dearly. I won’t elaborate to all the reasons I connect with her (she is an artistic, ambitious and level headed woman who often feels the second choice) but go watch the new film version and you may catch glimpses of me 💚

And since this is a Harry Potter / Hogwarts legacy account I’ll rattle off how I relate to characters in the franchise:

Luna Lovegood: she is just so in her own world, and not afraid what others think. I’ve always related to this energy.

Nymphadora Tonks: every character quiz I take says I have strong alliances to her personality, and I do see much of her energy. She’s a bit of a spitfire with a strong sense of forging her own destiny.

Sebastian sallow : shouldn’t be a shock (since I got back on tumblr because my connection with our favorite slytherin) but it meant so much to me to finally see a slytherin who was as studious as I am in real life. Before the game I was always a little apprehensive to let people know I aligned the most with the serpent house bc the bad associations and the fact we don’t see many positive slytherins in the original franchise… Academics have ALWAYS been a huge part of my life. Taking care of my baby sister at my own expense (emotionally, physically and financially) has been a huge part of my life. There isn’t a thing I wouldn’t do to keep her safe. I truly enjoyed playing this game since I watched and got to see a character that I saw so much of myself in at that age. Playful but worried, studious but always in trouble, protective of others but little sense of self preservation. He’s headstrong until he accomplishes his goals and would lay down his own safety for those he cares for 💚

[irelandseyeonmythology]

Dia duit!

Thank you for sharing your adventures in Celtic Studies with us - I've greatly enjoyed hearing about the material from someone with experience in the field and I hope that you have been having a good time studying in the Gaeltacht recently.

This is not particularly mythology-related, but I have been wanting to learn some Irish myself and am not sure where would be a good place to start - would you have any advice/know of any resources that might be useful for a beginner student? I am going to look into classes after I finish my thesis this year but would like to do some self-study beforehand also.

Go raibh maith agat!

Dia is Muire duit!

I'm going to answer this as Bearla, because I think that it would be slightly sadistic to answer this as Gaeilge given the topic matter. The Gaeltacht's been lovely -- I really, really loved Ulster in particular, though I'm slowly coming around to Connacht (just in time to leave), and I've gotten to do a lot of work on the side re: folklore and mythology that I'm going to be really excited to share relatively shortly.

At this point, I would say I'm at an intermediate level -- I can write relatively well, at least to the point of making myself understood, I can read quite well, though my spoken and heard Irish is......questionable. (In all fairness, they come through a lot of practice.) I'm not an expert. That being said, I can give you a few tips for how I've gotten to where I am, at least.

First off: You want to choose a dialect to start off with. In my case, I was trained in Munster, so I have a very Munster pronunciation most of the time though spending a month in Ulster and Connacht's gradually broken me. (I say "goitse" when I'm trying to get someone to come with me, God help me.) Each one has its benefits and its drawbacks from an English standpoint -- Munster might be better if you have an Old Irish background, since it's more synthetic, more conservative in some ways, Ulster is a little out there, but it's more analytic, it's closer to Scottish Gaelic, and Connacht is similar to Munster in many ways but does its own thing. I will say that, in general, unless you go *hyper* regionalized, people will generally understand what you're saying no matter what -- Me speaking Munster Irish had no impact on how understandable I was in Connacht or Ulster, it just marked me out slightly. If you have any Irish ancestry, you might have done research to know where they would have been in the country, and you can make your decisions based on that. (Though you don't have to! I just know that a lot of people are learning Irish as a way of connecting with their ancestors and, if that's an angle you're approaching it from, that might factor into the dialect you choose. I do maintain that no one has to have Irish ancestry to want to speak Irish, since, otherwise, I'd be out of the drawing.)

You might also choose a dialect based on the linguistic programs you'll be looking into -- Personally, I can say, if and when I'm in a position to teach Irish on a formal level, which might be in about....a year or so from now, if I play my cards right...I'm probably going to be teaching them Ulster. Not because it will be EASY for me to switch dialects, but because I was deeply impressed with the immersion programs in Donegal and I'd like to get them in a position to go to those programs to polish their Irish once I'm done with them. Connacht, likewise, has some lovely programs. Munster has one, to my knowledge, but none that will offer you a grade to fulfill your linguistic requirements, if that's what you're looking for. I do have a lot of fondness for Munster, there are some Munsterisms you'll pry from my cold, dead fingers, it's probably my favorite of the provinces and the one I'd ultimately like to move to if I had the chance, but it's just the way things are laid out.

And I just went through that massive breakdown because what resources you choose to learn from, at least at first, will be heavily dependent on what dialect you choose.

And, unfortunately, a lot of Irish language books are as Gaeilge, which makes it very hard for an English speaker to get into this.

Munster: Gaeilge gan Stró - My muinteoir wasn't overly impressed with this when I was taking classes (note: He's a master linguist AND a native speaker of Munster Irish, so he is very big on grammar and the language being as proper as it can be, so his standards are quite high) and it probably caused more problems than it solved, but it's become the standard. (I remember so many conversations with my cohort that was taking the class with me that went along the lines of "GAEILGE WITH STRÓ. GAEILGE WITH SO MUCH STRÓ."

Teach Yourself Irish - This is an old book, from the 1960s, the Irish is dated to some extent, but there are worse resources out there and, in many ways, it holds up. (Also, it's available for free online.) I will say that, generally speaking, I preferred the way it was presented more here than in GGS, I kind of had wished at the time that this was the text we were using, but your mileage may vary.

Connacht:

Learning Irish - Mícheál Ó Siadhail -- I have no actual experience with this book, but it seems to be the major standard for Connemara Irish.

A Learner's Guide to Irish - Donna Wong -- This is a good general source to have to hand anyway, but it she did spend a ton of time in the Carraroe Gaeltacht in particular.

Ulster:

Buntús na Gaeilge - Barbara Hillers -- This was the standard used by Harvard for years.

I would also recommend, as resources, focloir.ie; tearma.ie; and teanglann.ie. Each one has a different purpose, all three are useful. Focloir in particular is useful for its extensive examples list, which cover a variety of situations that you can adapt as needed.

My best advice, though is...by all means, work hard, study it, read these books, but don't try too hard to force it into your brain. There were times I was sobbing about once a week, for several hours straight because I felt like I was stupid or inadequate, I felt like I was utterly worthless as a Celticist, as a student, and, tbh, as a person because I wasn't absorbing everything. Now...I'm still not an expert, but I'm working my way through things at my own pace. I'm not going to claim that I can read a lot, or that it comes as naturally to me as it could, but I'm enjoying the process, I'm enjoying writing in it, I'm enjoying speaking in it, when I can. The important thing is if people can understand you. It might take me a long time to attain fluency -- I might never achieve the fluency of a native speaker or even of some of my more linguistically gifted colleagues, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that you enjoy the process. (Which is where, tbh, I feel like the modern Irish linguistic instruction has totally failed its students.)

Now, once you get the basics down, you'll want to immerse yourself in the language as much as possible. I love reading children's books as Gaeilge, I love playing video games as Gaeilge whenever I can (you CAN play Minecraft as Gaeilge now, if you so choose), I love watching TV shows as Gaeilge (Ros na Rún is unbearably cheesy but it's one of my go tos for studying because I can watch it with the Irish subtitles, then pause when I see a term or a construction I don't recommend, switch to English subtitles, write it + the translation down, and then go on. There are also whole episodes updated to Youtube) I've even been trying to do Dracula Daily as Gaeilge -- I have the 1933 translation on hand and have been trying to keep up with the entries as they come in. Not always faithfully, but I am trying. Everyone has something that they love, the trick is to use it. TG4 has a few shows available in the States (including, I believe....Ros Na Rún), you can listen to RTE to hear how the language is supposed to sound, you can join Discord servers (I know of several), etc.

Not an immediate suggestion, since I know you want to take classes and not everyone is made of money (or has a department willing to pay for them to do this sort of thing), but I do highly recommend an immersion course IF you can. Again, I want to emphasize: This isn't coming from the perspective of a spoiled, upper middle class academic: I know what it's like to not have money. I'm not suggesting this flippantly or lightly. And if you don't have it, you don't have it, and it doesn't say anything about how serious you are about the language. It just means you can't afford it. A year ago, I could *never* have made it to the Gaeltacht. That being said, I DO highly recommend immersion programs if you can -- overwhelmingly, they're taught by professors who have decades of dealing with students from different backgrounds and different levels of Irish, everything from people who are almost entirely fluent to people who have literally never had a word of Irish in their lives. I find that the classroom setting in the States can be stifling to this sort of thing -- I learn Irish better in Ireland, where I'm surrounded by it. If you can afford it, or if you are in a position to save up to afford it, I am perfectly happy to offer suggestions based on my personal experience.

And, of course, never forget my personal favorite seanfhocal: Is fearr Gaeilge briste ná Bearla cliste.

[seungisms]

omg totally random so i don’t usually leave messages but like i saw that you spoke gaelic and honestly it’s so rare to find kpop stans who know any of the goidelic languages and i’m just kinda buzzing rn ahah, i’m from scotland and speak Gàidhlig - tha thu fhein aon de na sgrìobhadairean kpop as fheàrr leam, tórr gaol!! <3

no the fact that it’s so rare to find gaelic speakers irl nevermind on fking kpop tumblr but look at us 😭 this is literally so fun ! ngl i sometimes have a hard time understanding scottish gaelic but this literally made me so,,, heart clenching,,, so sad for u anon,, literally became the loml in the space of one ask <333 go raibh maith agat !! :( i’m so glad u enjoy my content, i’ll try my best to be more active in future !!

[cosmicanger]

victorian scottish agate and gold locket bracelet

[boylerpf]

Antique Scottish Banded Agate Amethyst Heart Padlock Necklace

Source _ Boylerpf.com

[butterlaneantiques]

19th Century Scottish "Pebble" Jewellery

Scotland is known for its abundance of coloured agate which is found in a huge variety of colours and patterns, each type specific to a particular locality. Lapiadaries working in Edinburgh's "new town" made most of the pebble jewellery produced in the 18th and 19th centuries, sourcing stones from collectors who scoured the country in search of new deposits. Queen Victoria's love for all things Scottish generated a buoyant demand for jewellery of this style, and it's estimated that the number of people working in jewellery manufacturing in the 1870s exceeded two thousand.

A superb antique pebble bracelet and brooch set made in Scotland in the latter half of the 19th century. It comprises a series of graduated discs, each one featuring a Cairngorm citrine that forms the top of a dome with triangular cut-out sections to create a star motif around it. The gold is finely engraved with abstract foliate detailing, and inlayed with colourful varieties of agate and hardstone, including jasper, Montrose agate, granite, and bloodstone.

Further reading: Agates of Scotland

[theoldvintageco]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Vintage Celtic Jacobite Scottish Silver Tone Panel Bracelet with glass gemstones.

[juliesandothings]

Four from the book, Fabulous Fakes: A Passion for Vintage Costume Jewelry, by Carole Tanenbaum, photographs by Puzant Apkarian, A Madison Press Book, published in 2006

Top: 1950's era rhinestone brooch in the shape of a phoenix

Second from top: Scottish plaid jewelry (agate, bloodstone, granite)

Second from Bottom: a Victorian era, wreath shaped, bog oak brooch

Bottom: Victorian "Mizpah" pins and love brooches

[psdantiques]

A Robert Allison silver Scottish plaid or kilt brooch with a green stained agate panel. #jewellery #jewelry #brooch #silver brooch #Scottishbrooch #celticbrooch #renfaire #reenactor #renaissance https://www.instagram.com/p/Cme9ftIoT5-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[obeyfeline]

Fabulous Vintage Finds

Another instalment of my #cromulenttips, where I post links to amazing vintage on the Internet for your edification. As always, I have no connection to these items/sellers. My book, Swan Songs: Souvenirs of Paris Elegance, describing in evocative detail houses like Arnys, Charvet, Sulka, Berluti and many others, is available at the link in my bio.

Beautiful inlaid cufflinks at https://www.ebay.com/itm/175344650342

Scottish agate cufflinks and tie pin at https://www.ebay.com/itm/254861782839

Moonstone cufflinks at https://www.ebay.com/itm/334505965802

Hermes crocodile waistcoat at https://www.ebay.com/itm/384844052012

Woven silk Francesco Smalto cummerbund made in France (probably by Boivin) at https://www.ebay.com/itm/373588771029

1930s silk brocade dressing gown by Paris tailor Paul Portes at https://www.ebay.com/itm/384536470206

Asprey magnetic chess set at https://www.ebay.com/itm/275366950764

Arnys tie with... ties... on it #yodawgyo https://www.ebay.com/itm/234636643686

[celestialmazer]

1. Landscape agate from Blue Hole near Montrose.

2. Spotty agate from Ballindean.

3. Flame agate from Ballindean.

4. Pale pink agate from Ballindean. Note the stalactites and banding.

5. Agate from Burn Anne, Ayrshire.

6. Agate from Blue Hole near Montrose.

7. Tooth-like agate from Blue Hole near Montrose.

8. Banded agate from Ballindean.

9. Partridge agate from Burn Anne, Ayrshire.

10. Landscape agate from Blue Hole near Montrose.

11. Banded agate from Middlefield.

12. Agate from Blue Hole near Montrose.

Matthew Forster Heddle (1828-1897)

About the Collection

"Everything about Heddle was huge. He was huge of stature, with an adventurous, inquisitive and pragmatic spirit. Using his huge 28lb sledgehammer, his dynamism enabled him to amass a collection of Scottish minerals, especially agates and rocks, the likes of which has never been bettered.

At National Museums Scotland, we look after 5,700 specimens from his collection. Find out more about Heddle and explore his amazing collection here. You can download our Heddle trail [PDF 83KB] to find specimens from his collection around the National Museum of Scotland."