Translation of an Elegy on Ewen of Cluny

This material is held atUniversity of Glasgow Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 247 MS Gen 1090/14/19
  • Dates of Creation
    • 18--
  • Language of Material
    • Gaelic
  • Physical Description
    • Folded sheet of faded white paper.

Scope and Content

Poem of 10 double qtt written in English. It is headed, 'Translation of an Elegy on Ewen of Cluny/Composede by Lachlan Macpherson of Strathmashie'. It begins, 'There is many a hardship incident to/Each generation which this evil world beholds'. The translator has omitted the 8th double qt.

For the original poem cf. 'BGP.' (Edinburgh,1907), p.283.

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