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Seathan Mac Rìgh Èireann

Date 11 December 1949
Track ID 21240
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

CW0019.79

Original Tape ID

CW0019

Summary

This is a waulking song. It tells of Seathan, son of the King of Ireland. The composer tells how she was in Islay, Uist, and Ireland with him, and attended Mass with him in the Yellow Wood. It would be better to be with Seathan behind a ruin, than to be upstairs with a prince. She would not give him to anyone, even to gentle Mary, the mother of God.

Item Notes

16 lines sung plus choruses.

See:
'Hebridean Folksongs' vol. 2 (J. L. Campbell and F. Collinson eds., 1977) p. 40
'Òrain Luaidh Màiri Nighean Alasdair' (K. C. Craig) p. 119

Item Subject/Person

Seathan [mac Rìgh Èireann]

Recording Location

County - Midlothian

Parish - Edinburgh

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

Canna

Source Type

Wire

Audio Quality

Good