Crossword-Solution: CRINAN 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Whereon forth shrieked a bagpipe, and Dolfin’s minstrel sang, in most melodious Gaelic,-- “Strong as a horse’s hock, shaggy as a stag’s brisket, Is the knee of the young torrent-leaper, the pride of the house of Crinan.

Emerging from the Crinan canal, you issue forth into the Sound of Jura, and feel at once that you are in the stern and yet beautiful region of your youthful admiration.

And will you go round the Mull, Hamish, or through the Crinan, do you think now?" "Oh, I am not afrait to tek her round the Moil; but there iss the English lady on board; and it will be smoother for her to go through the Crinan.

This claim was disputed by two Celtic chiefs, Hundi (possibly Crinan, Abthane of Dunkeld) and Melsnati, or Maelsnechtan; and in a battle at Dungal's Noep, near Duncansby, at which Kari Solmundarson is said in the _Saga of Burnt Njal_[28] to have been present, Sigurd defeated them, but with such loss to his own side that he had to retire to Orkney, leaving Hundi,[29] the survivor of his two enemies, in possession of his lands in Caithness.

All my spare time was spent in taking the steamer up the Clyde, and sometimes going as far as Crinan and beyond it--or what I loved best of all, taking a trip to Arran, and there roaming about the hills to my heart's content.