Tobar an Dualchais - Kist O Riches

Title - Òran Chaluim Sgàire
Contributors - Kitty MacLeod
Reporters - Hamish Henderson

Summary - This is a sailor's song in which the bard expresses his sadness at being parted from the girl he loves. He is north of Norway and she is at Loch an Fhir Mhaoil in the Garynahine area of Lewis. He would rather be in Bosta planting barley. The bard goes on to tell how the ship set sail for home, passing round Orkney. It sailed swiftly past Barvas, moving like the roe-deer. He knows that when the ship appears on the horizon, the girl he loves will say, "Here is the ship at Cragam [Island] with Calum Sgàire in it".

Track Duration (h:m:s) - 00:02:44
Date Recorded - 1952.08
Language - Gaelic
Genre - Song
Collection - School of Scottish Studies

Track ID - 49098
Original Tape ID - SA1952.040
Original Track ID - SA1952.40.A6
Audio Quality - Good
Audio Format - R2R



Recording Location:
  County - Midlothian
  Parish - Edinburgh
  Village - Edinburgh


Item Location:
  County - Ross and Cromarty
  Parish - Uig
  Island - Great Bernera

Item Notes - 5 quatrains sung plus chorus at the end. The song was composed by Malcolm MacAulay (Calum Sgàire) of Bernera, Uig.
See:
'Eilean Fraoich' (Comunn Gàidhealach Leòdhais, 1982) p. 50
'Songs of Gaelic Scotland' (A. L. Gillies ed., 2005) p. 68

Permanent Link - http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/fullrecord/49098/1


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