Tales of the seal people are a big part of Hebridean
folklore, especially in North Uist, Julie Fowlis's home island. Her fascination
with these stories, of Norse royalty, enchantment, separation and isolation,
led Robert to gift her with a new spell, Grey Seal. 'I began the selkie song
thinking it was a drowning song,' he says, 'but by the time I'd added the final
verses realised it needed to be, like the selkies themselves, neither quite one
thing or the other, neither drowning nor dreaming, seal or human, land or sea,
elegy or eulogy, and how it was taken would depend on how it swam into the mind
of the listener.
Thig crioch air an t-saoghal ach mairidh ceol agus
gaol. (Scottish Gaelic)
The world will come to an end, but music and love will
endure.
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