[1]The “leabhar-aifrionn” (pron. lyo-ur eff-runn) is a missal: literally a mass-book, or chapel-book. Bru-dhearg is literally red-breast. [2]“O my Grief, my Grief.” [3]The first part of the story of Ula and Urla, as Isla and Eilidh, is told in “Silk o’ the Kine,” at the end of The Sin-Eater. [The name Eilidh, is pronounced Eily (liq.) or Isle-ih.] [4]Pronounce mogh-r?y, mogh-r?e (my heart’s delight—lit. my dear one, my heart).
|
|