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Thread #59163   Message #2065945
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
01-Jun-07 - 03:28 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The Highland Fairy Lullaby
Subject: RE: Folklore: The Highland Fairy Lullaby
'of the yellow fawn' is MacBean's rendering, but the Gaelic 'an laoigh bhric dheirg' would be more accurately translated as 'of the red spotted fawn' (or 'calf'; the word was used of the young of both deer and cattle).