Song beginning 'Ailein Duinn shiulain leat' and accompanying story, 7 August 1870
Scope and Contents
Song collected from 'Ceit wife [of] Don[ald] MacKin[n]on nee Urqhuart', Tarasaigh/Taransay beginning 'Ailein Dhuinn shiulainn leat, M iar[rtas] eir Ri[gh nan] aingeaol'. The song was composed by Ana ni Dhonil ic Iain oig Chaimbeul [Anna Campbell] who was engaged to Allan Morrison of Crossobost, Lews [Crosbost, Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis], who drowned. She was said to have died soon after of a broken heart and was to be buried at Rodail [Rodel] and ended up being buried at sea, near to her fiance. Some details of the Campbell family are noted in the story including their eventual emigration to America. The song is composed of twenty two lines. The text has been scored through in ink and written transversely over it in pencil is ''Gaol b ann an tiura 'n lair e, [-] = rolag-mhara' and in ink is 'Trans[cribed] B[ook] III page 215 10/12 1883 A[lexander] C[armichael].'
Dates
- Creation: 7 August 1870
Language of Materials
Gaelic English
Conditions Governing Access
This material is unrestricted.
Extent
From the Series: 64 folios ; 19.5 x 23 cm
Physical Location
5.07
Physical Location
folio 2r, line 11 to folio 3r, line 23
- Biography
- Crosbost Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland
- Death
- Drowning
- Family History
- Funeral Rites and Ceremonies
- Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland
- Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland
- Laments
- Loss (of people or things)
- Love
- Rodel Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland
- Seilebost Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland
- Songs
- Tales
- Taransay Harris Inverness-shire Scotland
- United States
Subject
- Campbell, Ann (nian Dhonil ic Iain Oig | composer of the song 'Ailean Duinn') (Person)
- MacKinnon, Kate, 1830-1927 (Person)
- Morrison, Allan, c1730-1768 (Ailean Donn | sea captain | Crosbost | Isle of Lewis) (Person)
- Campbell (of Argyll) (Family)
- Campbell (of Strond) (Family)
- Campbell (Scalpay) (Family)
- Campbell (of Barbreck) (Family)
- MacLeod (of Dunvegan) (Family)
Creator
- From the Fonds: Carmichael, Alexander, 1832-1912 (Excise officer | folklorist and antiquarian | Edinburgh | Scotland) (Person)
- From the Fonds: Watson, William John, 1865-1948 (Professor of Celtic) (Person)
Repository Details
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