I know little enough about this particular song, but it's certainly amazing how many Homeric or other Greek mythological references turn up in apparently quite unrelated storytelling traditions collected much more recently, so wouldn't be at all offput by any Homeric strain here. Regards, Richard. Barry Say wrote:
I think Chips has given one of the most enlightening inputs to this discussion. On 31 Oct 2008 at 13:51, Chips Lanier wrote: Actually, the first time I saw the title "The Keelman Ower Land", I assumed it was a tune about a waterman who had died/drowned. Growing up near the sea and around fishermen, I had heard the legend of when a sailor/fisherman dies, he is to walk over the land and away from the sea with an oar over his shoulder until someone asks what it was, and then he had arrived at paradise. This links us into an entirely different folk tradition - story telling. Surely somewhere on the web there must be more info but I cant imagine how to start looking. My grandmother came from a fishing family in North Shields but my links to that side are fairly tenuous. Can anyone provide any information ehich is rather more recent than Homer. Barry To get on or off this list see list information at [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
