Simon Chadwick - Old Gaelic Laments

Track 2: Am Bàs is Flathanas

 

 A poem by Sìleas Nighean Mhic Raghnaill (c.1660-1729), better known in English as Sileas of Keppoch. Sileas was interested in religious themes in a number of her poems, but this one is just amazing for its morbid explicitness.

 

 

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