'Ic Iain 'Ic Sheumais
This song celebrates a battle between the Macdonalds and Macleods at Carnis
h, North Uist in 1601. The composer it is said was moved to poetry by the
death throes of the young Macdonald chieftain, and sang to drown out the
latter's moans as his lifes blood seeped through his linen shirt and drenched
the ground.
It was a peculiarity of the gaels of Ireland and Scotland that love - love,
sudden and threatning - when destroyed by death did not diminish with the
passage of time. Rather, if the dull-hammer blows of fate were properly
mourned and unbridled expression given to grief, love becomes a bitter kind
of birth.
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