The Lost Pibroch and Other Shieling Stories - Neil Munro - Boeken - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781727885743 - 6 februari 2019
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The Lost Pibroch and Other Shieling Stories

Neil Munro

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The Lost Pibroch and Other Shieling Stories

TO the make of a piper go seven years of his own learning and seven generations before. If it is in, it will out, as the Gaelic old-word says; if not, let him take to the net or sword. At the end of his seven years one born to it will stand at the start of knowledge, and leaning a fond ear to the drone, he may have parley with old folks of old affairs. Playing the tune of the "Fairy Harp," he can hear his forefolks, plaided in skins, towsy-headed and terrible, grunting at the oars and snoring in the caves; he has his whittle and club in the "Desperate Battle" (my own tune, my darling!), where the white-haired sea-rovers are on the shore, and a stain's on the edge of the tide; or, trying his art on Laments, he can stand by the cairn of kings, ken the colour of Fingal's hair, and see the moon-glint on the hook of the Druids! To-day there are but three pipers in the wide world, from the Sound of Sleat to the Wall of France. Who they are, and what their tartan, it is not for one to tell who has no heed for a thousand dirks in his doublet, but they may be known by the lucky ones who hear them. Namely players tickle the chanter and take out but the sound; the three give a tune the charm that I mention-a long thought and a bard's thought, and they bring the notes from the deeps of time, and the tale from the heart of the man who made it.

Media Boeken     Paperback Book   (Boek met zachte kaft en gelijmde rug)
Vrijgegeven 6 februari 2019
ISBN13 9781727885743
Uitgevers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pagina's 116
Afmetingen 152 × 229 × 6 mm   ·   163 g
Taal en grammatica Engels  

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