“'S mise chunnaic an t-longnadh (Mermaid Song) (It Is I Who Saw The Wonder)”

Description

In Scots Gaelic: "It is I who saw the wonder/One early morning as I was looking for sheep/A girl with flowing brown hair/Sat on a flat rock of the gulls." The mermaid and her brothers are involved in a mysterious, bloody fight in a rocky cave

Notes

Alas, Lomax provides only the introductory verses and a maddeningly brief summary of the song. - PJS

Recordings

• Penny Morrison "'S mise chunnaic an t-longnadh [Mermaid Song] (It Is I Who Saw The Wonder)" [fragment] (on Lomax43, LomaxCD1743)