Posted on 09/07/2011 8:27:16 AM PDT by livius
From the You-Tube description: "A brosnachadh - Gaelic - (pronounced roughly brah-znuh-hug) is an incitement to battle. It is an ancient piece of music, a call to courage for warriors prior to battle. It was played on the harp as an accompaniment to the bard whose purpose was to take the men on an exploration of specific emotions in preparation for battle: the crith-gaisge, nervous excitement at gathering together for the battle, and the mir-cath, delight at the coming opportunity to attain valor and victory. The specific music from the harp likely aided the bard's memory as he recited the poem. This video tribute explores the timelessness of the brosnachadh as we consider its purpose in 2001 as America felt the need for a call to courage in the wake of the attacks on September 11. Produced by Eric Cathcart"
BTTT.
Why are Celtic words so far from the pronunciation in spelling?
Great piece of music and You Tube video. I think that is a
didgideroo (spelling?) in the background.
Didgeridoo I believe is the spelling.
I can’t imagine how they came up with their spelling!
It’s certainly a very striking piece of music, though, and I thought it was good to remember the military response afterwards (something I think we have almost forgotten already).
Very nice...
For later - thanks.
We did it just to be annoying to everyone else.
:)
Thanks for posting this.
A call to battle... who?
LOL! I have often wondered that myself. I came to the (personal) conclusion that it is the Gaelic joke on the rest of us.
I remember, years ago, reading a series of books written by a British woman who was having health issues, and was told by her doctors that she needed to move to a place with better air (I think she lived near coal mines). She decided, against the advice of all her friends, to retire on one of the islands off Scotland. Hilarity ensues.
In one of the books, she decides to try to learn Gaelic, and is told by one of the locals that it was a very easy language, you pronounce it just the way it is spelled. Well, as you can imagine, that is the furthest from the truth.
LOL! It's working!
I checked it out on:
http://winx.name/?w=Irish_orthography#Spelling_reform
This article says it is spelling is etymological, i.e. based on the history of the word.
We have that in limited form in English with words like Knight. Originally the “K” was promounced and the “gh” also. With time the spelling remained more or less the same even though the promunciation changed. How about “could” or “would”? Or perhaps Worcheastershire Sauce?
Make sense?
All I know is that I silently scream with rage every time I hear somebody mention the Boston “Seltics”.
That’s ANOTHER etymological problem.
Originally Keltoi - in Greek, the “K” is often transliterated into the Latin alphabet as a “C” creating the hard sound versus sibilant issue.
Islamic terrorists.
Did you watch the video? As she says in the introduction, people began to oppose “the war” and now this is all forgotten. But that was what it was about.
I live near a military base in Florida and I remember seeing the troop; transport planes coming out and heading off to Afghanistan in the weeks after 9/11. We would stand down there and cheer and pray for them.
Did anybody here watch the video? What do you think about it?
The harpist posted on her blog that her husband spent hundreds of hours compiling the photographs for it. Some of them I have never seen before, especially the military ones.
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