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Duan na Ceàrdaich

Date 11 January 1950
Track ID 24519
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

CW0044A.201

Original Tape ID

CW0044A

Summary

This Ossianic Ballad tells how Fionn MacCumhail and his men took Fionn's magic sword 'Mac an Luinn' to an enchanted smithy to be re-tempered. They followed a smith called Lonn Mac Lìobhann to the smithy, where there were four misshapen, four-armed blacksmiths, each with a claw-hammer and iron pincers. Some of the swords belonging to Fionn's men are named. These are 'Fead', 'Faoidh', 'Èigheach' and 'An Conallan'.

Item Notes

19 quatrains sung.

See:
'Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist' (M. F. Shaw ed., 1955) p. 29
'Leabhar na Fèinne' (J. F. Campbell ed., 1872) p. 59 and p. 65
'Stories from South Uist' (A. MacLellan & J. L.Campbell, 1961) p. 14
'Popular Tales of the West Highlands' (J. F. Campbell ed., 1861) Vol. III p. 396

Item Subject/Person

Fionn MacCumhail; An Fhiann

Recording Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - South Uist

Island - South Uist

Village/Place - Peninerine

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song Verse

Collection

Canna

Source Type

Wire

Audio Quality

Good