{"id":6387,"date":"2018-10-02T12:52:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T12:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/?p=6387"},"modified":"2018-10-02T12:57:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T12:57:22","slug":"birlinn-ghoraidh-chrobhain-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/2018\/10\/02\/birlinn-ghoraidh-chrobhain-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"Birlinn Ghoraidh Chr\u00f3bhain Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have been learning the gaelic song Birlinn Ghoraidh Chr\u00f3bhain as part of our Dunyvaig learning.\u00a0 Godred Croven was one of the earliest settlers on Islay and probably used Dunyvaig as a base.<\/p>\n<p>When the mighty Norwegian King Harold Hardrada was killed in battle in 1066, his Chief of Staff was Goraidh Crobhan (Godred of the white hand), who escaped and made his way to the Island of Islay, where his reputation as a clever and fearless warrior had gone before him. Men flocked to join him, and he was victorious in his battle with Fingal, King of Man and the Isles. He also fought successfully against Malcolm Canmore.\u00a0 In our animation you can see him travelling a Birlinn to Islay from the Isle of Man.<\/p>\n<p>Ghoraidh Chr\u00f3bhain is best known on Islay in a legend where he cleverly kills a dragon that was eating people and cattle, so we decided to have him slay a sea monster in our video, xan you spot it? \u00a0 He died in 1095 as a result of the plague that was sweeping the area and is said to be buried on Islay.<\/p>\n<p>We used stop motion animation to film the story of the song, and also recorded us singing along.\u00a0 We hope you enjoy the animation!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Birlinn 2018\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/292796215?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here are the words:<\/p>\n<p><strong>H\u00f3bhan na h\u00f3bhan h\u00f3, hi hor\u00f3 na h\u00f9bhan,<br \/>\nH\u00f3bhan na h\u00f3bhan h\u00f3, Air Birlinn Ghoraidh Chrobhain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fichead sonn air c\u00f9l nan r\u00e0mh,<br \/>\nFichead buille l\u00f9ghmhor,<br \/>\nSi\u00f9bhlaidh \u00ec mar eun a\u2019 sn\u00e0mh,<br \/>\nIs s\u00ecoban thonn \u2018ga sgi\u00f9rsadh.<\/p>\n<p>Suas i she\u00f2id air b\u00e0rr nan tonn !<br \/>\nS\u00ecos gu \u00ecochdar s\u00f9igh i !<br \/>\nSuas an ce\u00f2l is togaibh fonn,<br \/>\nTha Mac an Righ \u2018ga stiuireadh !<\/p>\n<p>Dh\u2019 fh\u00e0g sinn Manainn m\u00f2r nan t\u00f2rr,<br \/>\nEireann a\u2019 tighinn dl\u00f9th dhuinn,<br \/>\nAir Ile-an-Fhe\u00f2ir tha sinn an t\u00f2ir<br \/>\nGed dh\u2019 \u00e8ireas tonnan d\u00f9bh-ghorm.<\/p>\n<p>Translation:<\/p>\n<p>H\u00f3van, na h\u00f3van ho,<br \/>\nHee hor\u00f3, na h\u00f3van,<br \/>\nH\u00f3van, na h\u00f3van ho<br \/>\nThe barge of Gorrie Cr\u00f3van<\/p>\n<p>Behind the oars, a score so brave,<br \/>\nA lusty score to row her,<br \/>\nShe sails away like bird on wave,<br \/>\nWhile foaming seas lash o\u2019er her.<\/p>\n<p>Up she goes on ocean wave !<br \/>\nDown the surge she wails O,<br \/>\nSing away; the chorus, raise,<br \/>\nA royal prince; he sails her !<\/p>\n<p>The towers of Man we leave away,<br \/>\nOld Erin\u2019s hills we hail O,<br \/>\nOn Islay\u2019s shore her course we lay<br \/>\nThough billows roar and rave O.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been learning the gaelic song Birlinn Ghoraidh Chr&oacute;bhain as part of our Dunyvaig learning.&nbsp; Godred Croven was one of the earliest settlers on Islay and probably used Dunyvaig as a base. When the mighty Norwegian King Harold Hardrada was killed in battle in 1066, his Chief of Staff was Goraidh Crobhan (Godred of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6398,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387\/revisions\/6398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}