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Ailein Duinn Ò Hì Shiùbhlainn Leat

Date November 1964
Track ID 106100
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1964.89.A7

Original Tape ID

SA1964.089

Summary

In this lament, often used as a waulking song, the composer tells of her grief as a result of the drowning of the man she was to marry.

Item Notes

This song is said to have been composed by Annie Campbell of Scalpay. Allan Morrison, the man she loved, drowned in 1786.

See:
'Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist' (Margaret Fay Shaw ed., 1955) p. 258
'Hebridean Folksongs' vol. 1 (John L. Campbell & F. Collinson eds., 1969) p. 44
'Òrain Luaidh Màiri Nighean Alasdair' (K. C. Craig ed., 1949) p. 105
'The Gesto Collection' (K. N. MacDonald ed., 1895) appendix p. 6
'Songs of Gaelic Scotland' (Anne Lorne Gillies ed., 2005) p. 50
'Tocher' 22 (The School of Scottish Studies) p. 216
'Tocher' 41 (The School of Scottish Studies) p. 304

Item Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - Harris

Island - Harris

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good