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Thread #161327 Message #3838309
Posted By: Gutcher
11-Feb-17 - 03:45 PM
Thread Name: Lost Songs of St Kilda
Subject: RE: Lost Songs of St Kilda
Do the following two verses appear in any of the lost songs mentioned above?
From a St.Kilda song--to the tune The St.Kilda Wedding.
"Is truach nach robh mis"s giullachan
Air mullach Cleit Gadaig
Acuim air a sunnaradh
Us mise bhi gu h-aird oirr"
Song, words and music by Marion Gillies, St. Kilda.
"Gu rubh Ian MacGilliosa
Uair us usirigin a liobh rium
Ach o"n thain an t-iarl a Isl
Sguiridh e dha bhriodal beoil"
Both songs pre mid 19th. C.
The third line of the second song, with my complete lack of gaelic,
would appear to me to be referring to a Thane or Earl of Islay. Isl being that given for Islay in old charters.