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'S Olc an Obair do Theachdaire an Cadal

Date March 1938
Track ID 27084
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

CDC.XXXV

Original Tape ID

album_01_D04B

Summary

In this song, a fairy woman tells a man that messengers should not sleep. She informs him that his wife is being laid out. She had died while he was away fetching a midwife.

Item Notes

5 lines sung. The story associated with this song tells how a man went to get a midwife for his wife in South Uist. Due to the tide, he could not get across the ford. While he waited there he fell asleep. He was woken by a fairy woman singing this song to him.

See:
Notes for Scottish Tradition Cassette Series (4), Calum and Annie Johnston (The School of Scottish Studies) p. 35

Recording Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - Barra

Island - Barra

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

Canna

Source Type

Disc

Audio Quality

Fair