Associations to the word «Birlinn»

Wiktionary

BIRLINN, noun. (Scotland) (historical) a type of boat used especially in the Hebrides and West Highlands of Scotland in the Middle Ages

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats