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Subject: minstrel: Griogal Cridhe
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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 16:04:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Greg Lindahl" <lindahl@pbm.com>
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The evidence for Griogal Cridhe (Beloved Gregor) being actually
written in 1570 is quite weak; there is apparently no evidence of it
being written earlier than 1813 other than that it is about an event
in 1570.

I looked in _The Companion to Gaelic Scotland_ under "folksong,
early", which lead me to a journal named _Scottish Gaelic Studies_,
volume 8 (1955), p. 11-13, an article written by D. S. Thompson.
The earliest written version of this song is 1813. There was also a
folk version collected in the "late 19th century". The article
contains citations if anyone wants to chase it further. The notion
that the song wasn't necessarily written immediately after the event
has apparently been argued for more than 100 years.

-- gb

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