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- From: agauld@gssec.bt.co.uk (Alan Gauld)
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- Subject: Re: The Great Selkie of Sule Skerrie
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.152733.9013@gssec.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 15:27:33 GMT
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- In article <BETSYS.92Dec25230247@ra.cs.umb.edu>, betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz) writes:
- > This is from memory so forgive the mistakes. It's a simple and odd
- > and haunting story. A Silkie is a seal....
- And a very good memory at that!
- [..... some verses deleted ....]
-
- >And thou shall marry a gunner* proud [Harpoon-man]
- >And an aye proud gunner I'm sure 'twill be
- --- And a gye good gunner he's sure to be ---- [gye = very]
- >And the very first shot that ere he shoots
- >Will kill both my young son and me."
- And the version I have has the following last verse:
-
- And she has married a gunner good
- And a gye good gunner so was he
- And the very first shot that ever he fired
- killed the son and the grey silkie
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-
- PS I think the song is from the Orkney Isles(North of scotland) and is
- heavily influenced by Norwegian folk songs
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