Being a Gaelic speaker myself, seeing so many loving the language warms my heart. it's a dying language and people predict will be completely extinct before 2050, so the more learners keeping it alive helps it keep its flame
The actual Gaelic word is tiugh, and unless you’re in North Arran 100 years ago, it’s pronounced ‘choo’. However, you are correct in that tiug (or in this case tiugg) would be pronounced ‘choog’ :)
This is a song sung to 'waulk' ie shrink and felt the finished tweed to make it waterproof and the colours fast. It would be done by 8-12 or even more women sat ata board and rhythmically thumping the damp tweed. The song would be sung by one woman and the other women would sing the refrains. It takes about 30 songs and three hours to waulk a tweed.
I said 'felt' but actually you have to stop before the wool begins to felt, but is just thick and fluffy. You can see more on our website www.waulk.org
ruby rein yes we do. And due to your governments policies the languages are critically endangered. A descendent of Irish and welsh people displaced into the US
My grandmother and I used to sing waulking songs as we worked - in the garden, sewing, or cooking together. I never really heard the English translations, only that the song was about love. Thank you very much for this, I feel like I've reconnected with her, even just a little. :)
@@nourhanbe6163 waulking is the process of basically beating up wet tweed fabric until it has the right texture and stretch/shrinkage; many women at a time work on the same piece of fabric, so they sing to keep rhythm.
Being a pregnant girl called Anna, I feel pretty seen right now 😅😅😅😅 This just popped up in my feed, love it! Also my hubby is a dark haired handsome dude 😅
I'm Irish/Scottish, and it makes me cry in joy to see all these people loving this language so much. It's a dying language and I don't want this to die. 💘
I could be learning Spanish right now (something I would probably actually get good use out of) but I absolutely fell in love with the Scottish/Irish accent and language thanks to outlander. Now I’m working on it. I started learning it about a week ago and it’s been so much fun :) very sad that it’s a dying language, it’s so beautiful. We gotta keep it alive! Slàinte!
it's an absolutely stunning and beautifully heart warming language. Knowing that it might die one day out of existence breaks my heart. Albeit it being quiet difficult to learn I have taken on the task to learn it at least somewhat fluently to hopefully one day sing all those beautiful Gaelic songs to my children
@@tovarishlumberjack2356 Only around 1% of Scots can speak Gaelic meaning it is gradually being lost as a language, so it's not really an alternative reality, is it?
My wife and I started a language learning trend in our family. Twelve people decided to all learn Gaidhlig. She and I were hoping to have a language we could speak secretly to one another around the kids but it is fun to have us all learning another language together.
To anyone who didn't catch it by the rhythm of the song, this is a Sea/work Shanty song. It's main purpose is meant to keep rhythm and timing with a task. Such as rowing a boat, pulling a top sail, or scrubbing a deck. During the eighteenth century the Hanoverian Tyrants of England, especially after the Last Jacobite Rebellion, press ganged many Scottish and Irish young boys into service in the Royal Navy. So being so young, many of the boys adopted old wives songs that they heard their mothers sing to keep rhythm with the work.
phantomwriter05 actually this particular song and rhythm is used during the activity of waulking, (making the tweed that was used for clothing soft by beating it with urine in a circle on a table) it is very similar to a sea shanty song though!
Yeah, I figured ... But we're both right. Most Celtic Waulking songs were appropriated on ships and Army postings in the mid and late eighteenth century due to many young boys being pressed into service and remembering their mothers and aunts Waulking songs. It's just that, because, the British didn't allow Gaelic to be spoken after the last Jacobite Rebellion, many of the songs took different words, but the rhythm and music remained the same. For example The Irish Jacobite Song oro bheatha bhaile is also the tune for "What do you do with a Drunken Sailor?", even this song Gaol ise Gaol has an Army equivalent used during the Napoleonic Wars that Irish and Highlanders sang on the march in Spain ... though , to be fair, I don't remember what it's called anymore.
You'll find this is far more of a Sea Shanty (by the late Stan Rogers based in Halifax Nova Scotia) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZIwzRkjn86w.html Have some amazing Sea Shanty songs over there in Canada, Runrigs lead singer Bruce Guthro (folding it all up by the end of their current tour they're on right now) he's from Nova Scota well Cape Bretan Island he's in this with Alan Doyle formerly with Sean McCann the lead singers of Great Big Sea who sadly split ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GTaUxCHCOSQ.html actually in the same place the song's about, that obviously being Halifax N.S.
Some of Al's solo songs are fucking epic! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7lszhnmoulU.html this being one of them. Alan Doyle not living in Nova Scotia but from Petty Harbour, right in the middle practically of Motion Bay in St Johns Newfoundland (or Newfoundland and Labrador yes where the bred of dog originates from aka Newfie!). This may make ya's laugh ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BJlHTTQ-3fA.html lol a lot of names rhyme with Rick, my thoughts immediately came to yeah dick PMSL! Then this more about Newfies music ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PfeVwHnGlmY.html
You really should just go with it even if you dont understand the text its far easier way of learning Gáidhlig trust me, sounding it all out first then comparing it to text next is always the best way to go :)
@@liz1474 another fellow russian here. time for me to start learning Scottish Gaelic too. it's very melodic and beautiful. annnd not gonna lie i wanna learn more swear words in a different language. being just a russian and english speaker is boring, need more lol
Russian and Celtic are but two of many separate branches of Indo-European languages. With or whether they are ethnically related is somewhat uncertain. Gaulish was an ancient Celtic language in as much as Proto-Slavic or Old Church Slavonic was.
Just learned that my grandfather was born into a Gaelic speaking household on the Chief Cluny MacPherson estate, and his father (Malcolm MacPherson ) was the official piper to the Clan Chief. My grandparents came to NYC because they were in love and the laird of Butte and MacPherson Chief wouldn't allow them to remain in service and to marry.
My three kids are learning Gaelic at school. Giving your children the possibility of being bi-lingual is a gift that pays off relentlessly in the years ahead.
Saw women in Scotland doing a wool waulking demonstration and they sang several songs, this being one of them. I can still see them passing and pounding the wool to the beat of this song.
I love that each 'verse' is about something different. I like to imagine the original composers just deciding to play a game where each of them makes up one verse; maybe on the fly. First you have your dreamy romantic (possibly lesbian) one, and then your happy pregnant newlywed, and finally your free spirit who took the chance to love on herself 🥰
I love this! I love Celtic music and sea shanties. And I heard someone say this “waulking” song was designed simmilar to a she shantie. As in it was meant to accompany work and keep it a certain rhythm. It’s very lovely to listen too.
Very catchy in my opinion. Not sure who this Claire Fraser is, but someone called her a sassenach...made me chuckle, because I haven't heard that since my grandmother said it many years ago in reference to a bloody sassenach.
chuckles..@Zoe Kouf, I don't really watch television. Too many things going on in life to sit down and really get into a series. But, I might catch a few just to see what the hype is about. I knew quite a bit of history already. There are no Campbell's in my history. winks
@@MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead Better yet, read the books by Diane Gabaldon and skip the TV entirely. Start with the book called Outlander, though I think the Brit version is called Sassenach
@@wandabissell I've been doing both since this reference. Just finished season 4. Seems that the series is going a bit fast. All in all, I love the premise.
I’ve always loved Gaelic and Celtic music, being from Cape Breton Island..known as the mini Scotland ! Love your channel! Scotland is a place I would love to visit to learn about by ancestors!
Gle, gle snog! Extremely nice singing- her singing has a resinous quality which many of the very best singers have! B Major is kind of a basic, rather sacred key, in folk music; for many songs.
I am learning on Duolingo, I have even roped my sister in to learn with me. My ancestors were taken to Virginia for fighting in the 1715 Scottish Rebellion.
I'm so happy to see so many enjoy the language, please I urge you, if you are descended from the celts learn your language and keep it alive. I'm learning Scottish right now!
I'm no Scottish, but I fell in love with Scotland when I went there. You're such proud and respectful people. Hope you can one day become your nation and strive, and one day I hope to come back and live there.
I sang this Gaelic song, with my local choir. I did the solo, because my grandfather is from Wales. My grandmother was in tears. My grandfather had already passed away. This was in Columbus Ohio, in US.
I found this video searching " mystic ancient scotish music" idk why i find every thing so beautiful and mystic about those places, but i love that. Greetings from albania.
Not necessarily. The name Neil has been in fairly constant use in that part of the world, ever since that kingdom was there. On the other hand, the use of a patronymic rather than a surname definitely puts it back a couple of hundred years or so.
Columba/Colm Cille (from Derry-Doire Cholm Cille) copied another's book and was brought before the Árd Rí (High King) of Ireland who gave the verdict "To every cow her calf, to every book its copy" and banished him to Iona. He founded a new monastery there but it was an island already owned by his Clan. (Gaeilge - Clann.)
You know, I think this is the most beautiful language. I do not speak any form of Gaelic, as I am a fluent German and English speaker, but I've always admired Gaelic. I hope someday to learn more of this beautiful language.
Being an southAmerican woman with a LOT of passion for Gaelic culture (lenguage/music/love for Celtic nature druids times/love for taking care mother Homeland and Mother Earth)it's my passion and I know because an amazing past life there plus maybe..some ancestors fare back in time but Romain empire eliminate so much and then British empire..now globalization..so hopefully will not be more extinction for such a beautiful❤️ Peaceful people but became worriors only for defend themselves from selfish empirealistic egocenter cultures. I choose heart cultures!and you?🌞let's protect them!
B.C. epoch- this song was there, in Scotland... the men, who were the hunters, food-providers, could feel charmed by the sweet women, at such a song; they would retain however a little masculine indifference, thinking this good for strength towards such provision. Some this-continental flavor, of this music production- this undoubtedly stems from Nova Scotia, Alba Nuadh; this is the most beautiful, excellent singing...
I am Polish & Italian but I cannot deny that my heritage absolutely must go back to Ireland or Scotland it all resonates with me -I can feel it in my soul❤️
If there's one thing that never changes, it's that people like to sing when they got work to do. Literally has gotten me through five years of making pizzas, oddly enough. Such a beautiful song, and a beautiful language. I'm tempted to learn it, but I've got no clue where I'd even start.
There's a Duolingo course. And a decent amount of Gaelic media on RU-vid. There's a channel called "Carl's Lingo Kingdom" who has a few short videos discussing the Gaelic language and using Gaelic phrases.
Tapadh leat for this.. it is wonderful to have the singing with lyrics and translation right there. If you get one of He Mo Leannan Ho Mo Leannan I would love it. Walking songs are such fun to sing.
's e do bheatha :) that's a good suggestion, I'll probably try with Navan's version, it's the best I could find... it's nowhere to be found on RU-vid though, I just hope they'll let me upload it!
This is breathtakingly beautiful 😍 As someone who is just recently getting into studying the history of the Celtic languages, and getting a feeling for their sound...this is a godsend. And besides that, good music 👌
A good waulking song :) Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig agus tha an tidsear agam Gearmailteach. I'm learning Gaelic, and my teacher is a German (hope I got that last bit right, hehe). I once watched an old documentary from the 1980s about the Celts. The Gaelic song at the end of one episode was much more mournful than this one. It was sung by Kathleen MacInnes. Not sure if it was the same Kathleen MacInnes, given how different these two tunes are... EDIT: It was actually Kathleen MacDonald who sang the song from the 1980s series. I think she's from The MacDonald Sisters. EDIT 2: A few years on and my Gaelic above is worthy of improvement 😂 The following would be better: "'S e neach-ionnsachaidh na Gàidhlig a th' annam, 's an tidsear agam às a' Ghearmailt."
The Scottish language sounds very beautiful to me. It's so distinct from my own language. Listening to the words in this song I get the idea that they roll over the tongue in a completely different way. I wonder how long it would take a Dutchman to learn this language.
i think you would get it quick, i used to date a Dutchman from Amsterdam, and this Philly girl picked up Nederlands pretty fast when i went there w him, and i think that kinda guttural (spelling is wrong, sorry) hhheh sound you guys sometimes make (like at the beginning of "goed", and the like) would translate to their guttural sounds well. might have slightly different tongue placement, esp for the "LL", but i actually think theyd mesh well.
@@IDontKnow-pf6en Aha, now this is gonna be interesting. Would you like to tell me more about how Dutch did sound to you prior to when your brain started to recognise words and sentence structure?
Although I'm Hispanic and although I have 1% scottish and 3% welsh, I've always for some reason found this music very nice. Celtic folk music is so pretty especially the guitars and violins. Much love to Scotland from the states 🇺🇸 ♥ 🏴
I am an American who lives in the Southeastern U.S. We have a large population of people who are Scottish or Irish or Scotch-Irish. My ancestors came to America and we lost a great portion of our heritage. I am trying to recapture our shared culture, but damn is it hard.
I feel that. I live in the southeastern US as well, and my mothers side of the family is Irish. They came to America through Ellis island in the early 1900s, and while my family is fairly well off in that regard, due to the fact that some of the objects they brought with them are still in the family and my aunt knows a good deal about our family history, its still very difficult to recapture that culture once its been lost.
Do not equate the Scots Irish as being Irish, they are Scots who happend to live in Northern Ireland, they are Scots and never will be Irish. I think you Americans really need be educated on the facts. They lived in Northern Ireland then went to America. SAOR ALBA GU BRATH
Im Puerto Rican but..why do i seem to be genetically in love with sea shanties and scottish work songs 😭👌🏼 Update: guys.. i just found out im 5% irish/scottish😳👼🏻🙌🏼
I'm around 80% (give or take, probably less) Irish (I'm from America) and I want to go there SO BAD! Scotland is amazing too, i think that going there would be a magical experience.
Puerto Rican as well, and have some Irish ancestry. The history and culture of Scotland has always fascinated me. The Gaelic language and music are beautiful.
I'm of Puerto Rican descent too, but I've always been interested in Irish, Scottish, and British culture. I don't know if I have any Irish or British blood, but I haven't looked further into my ancestry than my great-grandparents, so it's possible. Most Puerto Ricans are descended from Spaniards and Spain is a close neighbor of Ireland and Britain, so their peoples could have done a lot of intermixing, especially in the time periods in which the population was so small that they had to look far away for spouses in order to avoid having to marry their cousins.
I'm Iraqi , daughter of the desert .but I've forever dreamt of the highlands & the life I could have in a small hut there. 2022 might finally be the year the dream come true . ♥️
I'm an Irish girl at birth. I was born in Galway and i have to say it really is a beautiful country. My whole family is airish but I don't think that many of them can speak fluently speak gaeilge. Now thinking about not many people actually know the language but of course there is reason behind it. There is one place in Ireland that I know of. In spidil most people that live there can speak Irish fluently. The Irish dancers and the highland dancers are also really good. I'm and Irish dancer and I absoultly love the music. It's nice and lively. Theres alot of scottish Irish dancers aswell. Theres also the shanoes dancers. You should really check out the traditional music, tiz good crack to mess around and dance to.
I'm not scottish but i want to learn gaelic, and i would like visit there and maybe stay someday. i really love the history, culture, and the tongues, i want to lear cuz i like it and to help to keep the beauty of your language alive
I know very little about the differences between Irish Gaelige and Scottish Gaelic, but either Gaelic is considerably easier to read, or I am actually starting to get more familar with Irish/Gaelic rules of spelling
Idk the differences, but I'm learning Irish Gaeilge using Doulingo, which has definitly help me get familiar with how to pronounce words I don't know and such.
I started learning Irish when I was 12 before I had to stop (library removed its language resources) and then when I was 15, I found an archived website with Scottish Gaidhlig lessons that I could download for free. By the time my MP3 player stopped working, I was in love with the language but couldn’t find the website to get the lessons again so I had to stop those too. Then Duolingo became a thing and I tried Irish again; I couldn’t get over how easy Irish was to pick up. The grammar, the pronunciation, it really is so much simpler than English, and English is my first language. I actually would recommend Mango Languages over Duolingo though, it feels and looks better put together and if your library is partnered with Mango, you get premium lessons for free with your library card number. Mango also has an endangered languages section that has Scottish Gaidhlig available, and the endangered languages are free for everyone even if they don’t have a library card.
The spellings are slightly different as they've evolved apart from each other for a long time, but most of the words still mean the same thing. It's easy to understand the other if you speak one.
It's normally sung (in a group of women) in... third.. fourth person? It's about a man singing about a woman, where the man sings about the woman mostly in first person. So the context is open to who is singing it. A lot of Gaelic songs and poems are like this.
