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10 Sep 07 - 07:40 AM (#2145315) Subject: Tune Title Enquiry. Scairlaveg From: Fred McCormick On Topic's Ranting and Reeling CD; Vol 19 of Voice of the People, there is a set of marches played by the Shepherds; Willy Taylor,Joe Hutton and Will Atkinson. It includes a tune called The Scairlaveg. Does anybody know what a scairleg is ? Thanks. And please, no daft answers. |
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10 Sep 07 - 07:52 AM (#2145320) Subject: RE: Tune Title Enquiry. Scairlaveg From: PMB Veg is a mutation of beg, i.e. little. No idea about the other bit, but it sounds like a placename to me, or perhaps a dialect variation of scallywag. |
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10 Sep 07 - 10:13 AM (#2145425) Subject: RE: Tune Title Enquiry. Scairlaveg From: Fred McCormick Interesting pair, but since the Shepherds were from Northumbria, I doubt beg would figure. Scallywag sounds a lot more enticing though, but the word has a distinctly Scandanavian ring to my ears. And of course where I wrote Scairleg it should have been Scairlaveg. Thanks, Fred. |
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10 Sep 07 - 11:10 AM (#2145472) Subject: RE: Tune Title Enquiry. Scairlaveg From: PMB A lot of Scottish tunes were (are) played by Northumbrian musicians. Sgair is a sea- rock, or skerry, perhaps this is the first bit of the placename. |