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To: Albion Wilde
Wanna talk about old songs from mostly-dead ancient languages: here's an only slightly updated primitive from the Orkney Isles:

"Song of the Eel"

46 posted on 09/13/2018 3:16:51 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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To: Mrs. Don-o
"Song of the Eel"

Wow, that is stunning! To me, that song has a much clearer tie to what we in this generation think of as traditional Irish folk music. You can almost hear someone sitting by himself on a rocky crag, with no accompaniment but the crashing waves and echoes off the stones. Thank you so much. Are you especially into Irish music, or was that a passing find?

I looked up this one, which is an old favorite of mine. An homogenized version was popularized to some extent back in the late 60s by Joan Baez:

The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry

It's the legend of a mythological sea creature, the Great Silkie, creating a baby with an Irish maiden... with a tragic ending.

47 posted on 09/13/2018 4:04:59 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Ain't no reaching across the aisle in Hell.)
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