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Stoirm nan Gobhar ri Taobh na h-Abhann

Date 11 August 1951
Track ID 35394
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

CW0171.935

Original Tape ID

CW0171

Summary

This waulking song tells of a girl who had a son after she had an incestuous relationship with her brother. She faces the Session on the following day.

Item Notes

31 lines plus choruses sung.

See:
'Òrain Luaidh Màiri Nighean Alasdair' (K. C. Craig ed., 1949), p. 25.


'Hebridean Folksongs' vol. 2 (J. L. Campbell and F. Collinson eds., 1977) p. 80

Recording Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - Small Isles

Island - Canna

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

Canna

Source Type

Wire

Audio Quality

Good