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Màiri nighean Alasdair Ruaidh (also known as Mary Macleod) was born in Rodel on the Isle of Harris and lived c.1615 and died c.1706. She seems to have been employed as a nurse to the Clan Macleod of Harris and Dunvegan. However, she began writing poetry later in life. Her poetry is different that the formal court poetry of the period. It is more like the earlier, less formal poetry of the Medieval Period, while drawing on the length of the professional court poetry.

Mary Macleod (1569–1674), was a Gaelic poet, called 'poetess of the Isles,' and in Gaelic 'Mairi Nighean Alasdair Ruaidh,'