so I take it the author is John A. MacLeod. Thanks for that information, but there was no need to paste in the same set of lyrics ---
Runrigfan, why did you not at least take the opportunity to correct "funchd" to "fuachd" and "Roimhimm" to "roimhinn"? Those wrongly spelt words stand out glaringly to someone who is familiar with Gaelic. Didn't you see that I wrote that "right away I spotted the first line:
"funchd an Dubhlachd" which must mean "fuachd an Dubhlachd", the cold of December. Roimhimm should be roimhinn", before us, also spelled "romhainn".