Biography

Alexander Grant (Alasdair mac Iain Bhàin) was a soldier from Glenmoriston, according to an anthology written by Donald Campbell MacPherson [11299] and published in Edinburgh in 1868.

MacPherson worked in the Advocates Library in Edinburgh, but he was from Bohuntine, Lochaber, and he would write for the periodicals An Gàidheal and The Celtic Magazine under the name Abrach. He got many of the songs in the Duanaire from the oral tradition of Lochaber.

Another version of Òran an t-Saighdeir can be found in the lecture Leaves From My Celtic Portfolio, which William MacKenzie gave to the Inverness Gaelic Society on the 19th of December 1877.

List of compositions

Òran an t-Saighdeir