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Laoidh Fhraoich

Fieldworkers
Date
Track ID 88050
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1958.164.A1

Original Tape ID

SA1958.164

Summary

A Fingalian ballad. Both Maeve and her daughter were in love with Fraoch. Maeve became very jealous and decided to kill Fraoch. She feigned illness and asked Fraoch to bring her berries from a magic rowan tree, but she then asked him to go back to fetch a branch-full, pulled up from the roots. In an attempt to retrieve them he was attacked by a monster and mortally wounded, but not before he killed the monster with the knife given to him by Maeve's daughter.

Item Subject/Person

Fraoch

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good