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 Post subject: Lyrics brian boru
PostPosted: Tue 01 Mar 2016 9:03 pm 
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In the first verse the woman sings in Alan Stivell's version of Brian Boru, nowhere can I find what she says. All lyric sites including this video have the wrong lyrics, can anyone write them down?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC_v0qt_Vxo


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 Post subject: Re: Lyrics brian boru
PostPosted: Thu 03 Mar 2016 11:13 pm 
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FrostPunk wrote:
In the first verse the woman sings in Alan Stivell's version of Brian Boru, nowhere can I find what she says. All lyric sites including this video have the wrong lyrics, can anyone write them down?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC_v0qt_Vxo


Its difficult to determine what she says because the pronunciation is totally inaccurate. The Irish is also riddled with mistakes.

Dúirt siad 'they said' ... is the only bit I can make out.

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 Post subject: Re: Lyrics brian boru
PostPosted: Thu 03 Mar 2016 11:33 pm 
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Yeah I heard before people said the pronounciation was not right, you know any place where I can listen to the right pronounciation of these words?


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 Post subject: Re: Lyrics brian boru
PostPosted: Thu 03 Mar 2016 11:51 pm 
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FrostPunk wrote:
Yeah I heard before people said the pronounciation was not right, you know any place where I can listen to the right pronounciation of these words?


Who else translated the song?

A lot of the grammar is also incorrect as well.

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 Post subject: Re: Lyrics brian boru
PostPosted: Fri 04 Mar 2016 1:26 am 
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The woman who sings with him there is Máire Bhreatnach. But what she sings doesn't really correspond to what is written, and I don't understand well because it's Munster Irish, I'm not used to it when sung...

What Alan Stivell sings corresponds to what is written, but his pronunciation (in both Breton and Irish) hurts my ears.

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