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#104123 06/11/03 11:44 AM
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i've always seen it spelled 'silkies' but selkies is a little closer to how i say it..

has anyone seen the secret of roan inish'? or under the glacier (that's an icelandic film!)- both feature silkies and the silkie myths.. and its not just men who are silkies, more often than not, it is women who fall in love with a fisherman, and follow him back to shore, and come to live with him (where would a male seal have a chance to meet a woman?)

and many stories involve fisherman being saved by their wifes, who in storms, went back into the sea to save their beloved husbands. (and some stories are tragic, of men who steal the silkies skin, and keep them trapped on shore.. and later, die at sea, since their wifes cannot put on there skin and rescue them..)

the secret of roan inish is available in most 'blockbuster' or other large chains, sometimes its in the childrens section.. (it works on several levels, and kids can enjoy it as a fairy tale like movie.)


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My understanding of the Black Irish/Scots (the Scots were just Irish who left for Caledonia about the time the Romans were leaving Britain*) is that the line of descent came from the eastern Mediterranean. The same people who were ancestors to the Phoenicians had migrated across North Africa and left behind Carthaginians, came up through Spain leaving folks there and going on to Ireland. These were not, as I remember, Celts but were the people who lived in Ireland when the Celts moved in their own selves. That's the way I have it tucked away in my tiny little brain.

*This may be one of the reasons the Picts started moving in on civilized Britain causing the Britons, who had lost their Roman protectors, to call on the Angles, Saxons and Jutes for help, thus setting up the circumstances that left us with this lovely, complex, bastard of a language that has brought us all together in this little haven we call AWADtalk


#104125 06/13/03 12:17 AM
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When I saw the expression Black Singers for Welsh the mental image I got was of a choir of coal miners. Like the Men of the Deep from Nova Scotia.


#104126 06/13/03 11:57 AM
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Has anyone seen Secret of Roan Inish?

Aye... That's one of my favorite movies. Every time it comes on cable I find I can't not watch it.


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