
Mo chéile ag treabhadh na dtonn go tréan: could it be: "My darling has crossed the wild waves" ?
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I'm all at sea on the last two lines of the penultimate stanza - the translation I've given is my best guess but may well be wrong.
I think the rest is mostly OK, but as my Irish is far from fluent there could be mistakes.
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Mo chéile ag treabhadh na dtonn go tréan: could it be: "My darling has crossed the wild waves" ?
"treabhadh na dtonn" is a pretty ancient idiom that is the Irish form (and "treaghadh nan tonn" works in Scottish Gaelic too) of the equally ancient English idiom "plowing the waves". "go tréan" is an adverb ("placing "go" in front of an adjective is equivalent to adding "-ly" to an adjective in English), and as an adjective tréan means strong or powerful or intense or violent, so we have strongly, powerfully, intensely or violently.
I wonder if I should have made the line after that one "over the hills and far away".
so he adverb strongly is about him not the waves; I translate in italian: il mio sposo con forza fende l'onda
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That (con forza) looks right to me.
I sorry that that's a very late reply, but I've been tied up in sorting out my wife's estate in two distinct legal jurisdictions (she had a will in neither) and not doing much at all with LyricsTranslate or indeed with anything else other than lawyers, with things made yet more difficult by Microsoft's inabilty to avoid installing incorrect video drivers when it updates windows 10 (because it hasn't a clue which driver works well with which hardware) and with related problems caused by my allowing an incompetent twit (who sadly had a reputation as a competent software engineer; maybe I will correct that, as he must be costing people a lot of troubles) to try to fix the incorrect video driver problem on my laptop - he spent three days trying to fix something that is usually fixed in less than half an hour, swore that he had permanently eliminated the possibility of incorrect video drivers being installed in subsequent updates, and he'd managed to lose a large chunk of data that I had specifically asked him not to touch, he destroyed nearly all applications and all users on the machine (leaving only the windows 10 default admin user, which I normally refuse to allow on my equipment), and enough of my data was missing that I'm having difficulty working out a way of restoring a usable system. The "permanent elimination" lasted until the next windows update, no longer. Naturally, I got it fixed (in about 10 minutes) by someone I knew to be reliable instead of using the incompetent twit again. If I still had my working equipment, I could do it in less than 10 minutes myself, but I retired about 14 years ago and no longer have access to lots of interesting hardware and software tools.
Bí = Be (2nd singular imperative); i = in ; do = your (French "ton", not "votre"); thost = silence (the word is tost, but the preceding "do" softens the first consonant from "t" to "th" (pronounced "h")). French "Tais-toi", "Ne dis rien", "Ferme-la".
However, looking at the English it's clear that they intend the plural, so the actually meant "bígí i bhur tost" - "Be (plural) silent", Taisez-vous
Bí i do thost = "Be silent" or "Shut up" or "Say nothing" (Tais-toi, not Taisez-vous)
Bí i do thost air = "Say nothing about it" or "Keep quiet about it"
Bí i do thost liom orthu = "Don't mention them to me" or "Say nothing to me about them"
The Conchubhar here is more likely to be Conchubhar Mac Neassa. Nas, his mother, tricked Fergus Mac Roeach into relinquishing the kingship of Ulster to him. His subsequent rejection by Madhbh and his rape of her sparked a long and bloody retaliation by Madhbh and her allies. He was also a renowned musician.
Mòran taing 'son seo - glè inntinneach. 'S e tobar an dulchais anns an t-òran seo fhèin gu dearbh - cha robh fios agam.
An interesting collection of accents here.
The Chorus is sung by all six singers. Each singer has one stanza to sing alone.
This is a fairly modern song, put together some time after 1971. But all the words (except perhaps part of the chorus) were written in the middle of the 18th century, and the 20th century song came from putting together stanzas from two or more different poems by Seán (Clárach) Mac Domhnaill and some from songs which may have been written by him or may not, but are at least quarter of a millennium old. And the six stanzas here are not the whole song, there are quite a few more - but six stanzas and choruses is probably as long as modern audiences will accept, so most versions performed are shorter than this version.
The chorus sometimes has "chuaidh" and sometimes "luadh" in the last line - and in the final chorus, where the line is repeated, it has one of each. My hearing of Irish when six people with five diffeent accents are singing is not good enough to get which chorus has which word accurately, but I think the first five are all "chuaigh" and "luadh" comes in right at the end.
I suppose it's inevitable that someone will ask why I've named Iarla as the main artist and the others featured, so I had better explain. First, these six never had a name as a group - they did this one song together as part of the TV series "The Highland Sessions" which has now been made into a (DVD) album; and each of them did other bits in that series, as did 24 other singers, so that using the name of the series to identify just this group wouldn't work. And listing all six names as a single artist probably wouldn't work either. So I picked the one of the six who had, as a child, been present when the 20th century song was created and had been a member of the choir which first sung it. I suppose I could have picked Mary Ann (a Scot) as she was series presenter as well as one of the singers, or Allan as he too had a wider role in the series, but I didn't.