Runrig - Abhainn an t-Sluaigh video free download

Suzy Jenkins

This lovely laid-back song has just been playing on my iTunes shuffle and thought I would share it with you all.

vanhouses

Éste grupo es fantástico, te traslada a Escocia en cada una de sus canciones.

seiler

@wattsite I know that at the time the norwegian vikings came to Shetland and the Orcneys, the picts were already gone...

seiler

Bought the CD Big Wheel when I sailed to Shetland in 1987, Love the music....

Sarah Macgregor

What are you? A band? ...If this is the second time i've replied to this i was drawn back in by a PM. Also, thanks. :)

Jimmy MacDonald

The skies above London Are neither clear nor dark The need to be far from the crowded river Neither the great candle of daylight Nor the stars of the night can be seen The need to be far from the crowded river In this city that never sleeps there is stillness, no quiet The need to be far from the crowded river Footsteps keep moving The river in full flood The need to be far from the crowdedriver The relentless wheels Keep turningwithout pause The need to be farfrom the crowded river

Jimmy MacDonald

Chaneil an t-adhar os cionn Lunnainn a nochd soileir no Dorch. Fada bho abhainn an T-sluaigh. Gun sgial air coinneal Mor latha no reultan na H-oidhche. Fada bho abhainn an T-sluaigh. An sea s'am baile gun Chadal gun fhois is gun saorsa. Fada bho abhainn an t-sluaigh. Casan a' gluasad an abhainn an Tuil. Fada bho abhainn an T-sluaigh. Na cuibhlichean's Cabhaig a tionndaidh gun sgur. Fada bho abhainn an t-sluaigh.

lessdone

Missing Runrig is the story of my life. I didn't know about them when they came to New York in 1992 to shoot this video though I was living there. When they finally came around to play there again, I had moved out West. While the haunting images of the World Trade Center buildings in the background mark the passing of time.

johnnie connell

FACTS AND SOURCES PLEASE....Mr Camejolo...

johnnie connell

Sarah McGregor You have a very wicked Sense of Humour !...

NorthLimitation

Do you see the irony in the fact that you seem to want to distance yourself from Gaelic culture because of persecution, in the same way the teachers wanted to distance themselves from what they saw as further persecution? I can't help but feel you're failing to recognise the tiny nuance in this situation. Also, Inverness has not got a Gaelic heritage - you have got to be kidding me?

NorthLimitation

"those of us without Gaelic parentage", is that what it comes down to? Don't take your insecurities out on me, the fact that some people treated you different is awful but it is not indicative of the Gaelic culture of the Highlands. This is all about choice, the choice of people to chose whether or not to revive what they see as their own individual identity - an identity whcih Inverness retains untill this day! The Gaels merged 1500 years ago, the UK Government SUPRESSED only 100 years ago.

Sarah Macgregor

....in the manner that runrig shed tears about lowland scots with english habits... don't ya see the IRONY of that sir? Hmmm?

Sarah Macgregor

Which is digusting! The Gaels, the oppressors wiped out all trace of pictish language and culture! The gaelic language will have evolved differently in Scotland once it was brought over. My Gaelic identity is a secondary resuscitated identity which died when i left primary school. There is very little Gaelic about Invernessians. In response to islander teachers who stuck their nose up at those of us without Gaelic parentage, i scold you all for speaking the language of a very ancient opressor.

NorthLimitation

That's my point, we don't know what language the Picts spoke. Besides, this isn't based on race or ethnicity (that's disgusting) - this is based on our living culture, our way of life etc and that is a Gaelic identity. It's not really identical to Irish, 75% of the two languages are mutually intelligible, but they are different languages. Who are the oppressors and what are they oppressing exactly? Highland / Scottish / Gaelic culture exists, Pictish does not.

Sarah Macgregor

Since the gaelic is almost identical to irish gaelic, it makes sense that it was brought over by the invaders. Removing all trace of what was there before, seemingly? Wouldn't our language have been closer to brythonic language before then? Makes sense. To annoy gaels, i refuse to speak the language of the oppressor anymore!

NorthLimitation

I don't know if I'd call it 'crushing', the Pictish language (and most of its culture) is a complete mystery, it could even have been pre-Brythonic. However, the Highland culture is something which is still alive :)

MartinaBC1963

I don´t think their lyrics are anti-english. They are just pro-scottish ;-) Anyway, I love most of the Runrig lyrics, they uplift your spirit.

Sarah Macgregor

Actually i do believe you are helping preserve the crushing of the pictish by the scots of ireland. Ahem.....

Sarah Macgregor

But he spent his whole life in flipping skye. This is reverse snobbery of the highlands. Trust me, i is a highlander. And a runrig fan, a gaelic speaker. I try to ignore some of their more cringeworthy anti english stuff.....

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