Identifier Number NS034058
Title Na Deich Àitheantan
Alternative Title
Air
First Line Chorus
First Line Verse Creid dìreach an Rìgh nan Dùl
Classifications Religious
Subjects The Ten Commandments
Structure
Place Of Origin Scotland
Composer First Name Hector
Composer Last Name MacLean
Composer Patronymic Eachunn mac Iain , Triath Cholla
Composer Dates
Composer Gender Male
Community Coll , Scotland
County
Era Of Poetry
Original Format Publication
Singer
Singer Location
Date Recorded
Collector Doctor MacLean
Collection Title
Collection Location
Collection Number
Publication Title Clàrsach na Coille
Editor Alexander MacLean Sinclair
Publisher Archibald Sinclair
Publication Date 1881
Page Number 213
Online Access https://dasg.ac.uk/corpus/textmeta.php?text=222&uT=y
Notes 1 "IAIN GARBH, 1st Maclean of Coll, was the second son of Lachainn Bronnach, chief of the Macleans. He was a strong and brave man. He was married to a daughter of Fraser of Lovat. His son, Iain Abrach, was killed in a quarrel with the Camerons of Lochiel. He was married to a daughter of Maclean of Urquhart, and had two sons, John and Hector. As John died without issue Hector succeeded him as Laird of Coll. Hector, the 4th Maclean of Coll, was a highly accomplished scholar. He was a man of piety. He was a devoted student and took great pleasure in poetry. He composed poems in Latin and in Gaelic. He was married to a daughter of Alastair mac Iain Chathanaich of Islay."
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