Cén Gaeilge atá air "Selkies"?

Lughaidh · **Joined:** Thu 15 Sep 2011 12:06 pm **Posts:** 2436

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I don't know where the woman with a fish's tail legend came from, but definitely not from Ireland or Scotland.

Scandinavia, I guess, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Mermaid

Brian O'Cathain · **Joined:** Fri 09 Mar 2012 10:01 am **Posts:** 84

Isn't the seal woman of the western coast also called a beanrón?

franc 91 · **Posted:** Sat 28 Apr 2012 10:28 am

Have a look at this -
Selkies in Irish folklore by Janna King
http://born-as-glitter.org/chai/selkiepaper.htm
and Roan Inish is of course seal/selkie/rón island though I would have thought that it should be the other way round - Inis róin

Scooby · **Joined:** Tue 06 Sep 2011 7:18 pm **Posts:** 576

Nice article. Yes, you'd think Inis Róin would have been anglecised as Inishroan.

Bríd Mhór · **Joined:** Sun 28 Aug 2011 8:29 pm **Posts:** 2994

Redwolf wrote:

Muruach (Merrow). A friend of mine did a great deal of research on the selkie-like creatures of Ireland.

Redwolf

GRMA !
(I sent a link to this page to the woman on Forvo who was interested)

Lughaidh · **Joined:** Thu 15 Sep 2011 12:06 pm **Posts:** 2436

Is cuimhneach liom go bhfacaidh mé 'n focal "murúch" i bhfoclóir nó i leabhair ineacht...

Scooby · **Joined:** Tue 06 Sep 2011 7:18 pm **Posts:** 576

Lughaidh wrote:

Is cuimhneach liom go bhfacaidh mé 'n focal "murúch" i bhfoclóir nó i leabhair ineacht...

FGB: murúch

franc 91 · **Posted:** Sat 28 Apr 2012 2:16 pm

There's - The Mermaids Singing by Lisa Carey, where the story tales place on Inis Muruch - though it probably should be murúch, but anyway I think it must be a made-up name as it's not on Logainm.

Redwolf · **Posted:** Sat 28 Apr 2012 3:31 pm

"Murúch" in de Bhaldraithe, "Muruach" in Ó Dónaill...too bad those two guys didn't collaberate a little more closely!

When I posted last night, I knew how to say it but was unsure of the spelling. I couldn't find it in FGB (I was tired and so must have passed right over it), so I looked up "Merrow" in Ó Dónaill. Thought the spelling looked a little odd given the pronunciation, but who am I to argue with old Niall?

Redwolf

Lughaidh · **Joined:** Thu 15 Sep 2011 12:06 pm **Posts:** 2436

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"Murúch" in de Bhaldraithe, "Muruach" in Ó Dónaill...too bad those two guys didn't collaberate a little more closely!

Ó Dónaill's and de Bhaldraithe disagree on many things, for instance, in his examples, de Bhaldraithe often uses relative forms (in -s), synthetic endings (as those that are used in Munster) etc, while Ó Dónaill doesn't.
But de Bhaldraithe's dictionary is much older (1958) while Ó Dónaill's was published in 1976 or sthg like that.

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