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Marbhrann do dh'Aonghas Òg Àirigh a' Mhuilinn

Date 26 February 1975
Track ID 86962
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1975.82.A2

Original Tape ID

SA1975.082

Summary

This elegy describes Captain MacDonald's nobility. The bard uses the image of the fallen tree when describing Captain MacDonald's death. The bard asks God's protection for the man's family.

Item Notes

Learned from Alasdair Boyd and Mrs Archie MacDonald. The song was composed by Angus Campbell (Am Bàrd Sgallach). Captain Angus MacDonald of Milton drowned in Loch Aoineart, South Uist in 1809, while ferrying kelp.

See:
'Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist' (Margaret F. Shaw ed., 1955) p. 102
'The Uist Collection - The Poems and Songs of John MacCodrum, Archibald MacDonald, and some of the minor Uist bards' (Rev. A. MacDonald ed., 1894) p. 207

Item Subject/Person

Aonghas Òg Àirigh a' Mhuilinn

Recording Location

County - Midlothian

Parish - Edinburgh

Village/Place - Edinburgh

Item Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - South Uist

Island - South Uist

Language

English, Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good