Laoidh Fhraoich
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
19 December 1958
Track ID
88050
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1958.164.A1
Original Tape ID
Summary
A Fingalian ballad. Both Maeve and her daughter were in love with Fraoch. Maeve became very jealous and decided to kill Fraoch. She feigned illness and asked Fraoch to bring her berries from a magic rowan tree, but she then asked him to go back to fetch a branch-full, pulled up from the roots. In an attempt to retrieve them he was attacked by a monster and mortally wounded, but not before he killed the monster with the knife given to him by Maeve's daughter.
Item Subject/Person
Fraoch
Language
Gaelic
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good