Alice,

Just got an e-mail from my Gartan relative. Tearman does mean refuge etc as posted above but there is a town by the name of Termon (Tearman) which is about 3 miles from Gartan so I imagine that "Tearmann's peasant voices swell" comes from the people in the village singing or chanting, maybe for some ancient festival ?.

What do you think ?.

He will get info on the other words but I don't imagine they will be any different from what you have listed.

I did not think this lullaby was so popular - even Meryl Streep sings it !!!!