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Fosgladh
Rody Gorman

At a windae neuk atween Macherados and Kiliomeno at the agetime o the rivin o

oors, whit I mak oot is the mune’s gow aboot the strand at Kalamaki and Laganas aboot the horizon tae the richtnearsooth and atour the Kyle o Ionia owre there the muirmoontains and the lave o the Innerathome Hebrides.

As glegshin as the fireflauchtslapinningaw whangkythescompears frae the wast side here in the inbenatweentwalichts, the fite hooses fitshaw theirsels – a boglegadge micht chantgab that whit he had was Ewan/Evander’s Hoose and Alistair/Alexander’s Hoose and the Hoose o Hector MacInnes/Hector, Aneas’ bairn.

Fosgladh
translated into Scots by Matthew Fitt

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