Is Muladach Mi 's Mi Air M' Aineol
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Track Information
Original Track ID
CW0100B.441
Original Tape ID
Summary
This waulking song is part of a flyting between a bardess of Macleod of Harris and a bardess of MacDonald of Clanranald. The early lines sung here belong to the Harris woman. In these lines she describes how she cannot see her lover coming. The main part of the song, in this version, belongs to the Clanranald bardess. She describes her chief and his castle, where there is lots of good food and drink. There are heroic men and beautiful girls. The old men look like youths and the old women look like young girls.
Item Notes
40 lines sung. Recorded by the Barra Folklore Committee.
See:
'Hebridean Folksongs' vol. 1, no. XXIII
Recording Location
County - Inverness-shire
Parish - Barra
Island - Barra
Village/Place - Castlebay
Language
Gaelic
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Wire
Audio Quality
Good