{"id":10447,"date":"2018-04-22T16:26:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T16:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/?p=10447"},"modified":"2018-05-14T18:26:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T18:26:21","slug":"a-follow-up-to-the-irish-vocab-for-the-parts-of-a-fiddle-bow-barr-bogha-fidil-ollmhor-deanta-as-cloch-le-roc-cheol-na-bhfathach-a-sheinm-no-stua-mara-nadurtha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/irish\/a-follow-up-to-the-irish-vocab-for-the-parts-of-a-fiddle-bow-barr-bogha-fidil-ollmhor-deanta-as-cloch-le-roc-cheol-na-bhfathach-a-sheinm-no-stua-mara-nadurtha\/","title":{"rendered":"A Follow-up to the Irish Vocab for the Parts of a Fiddle Bow: Barr Bogha Fidil Ollmh\u00f3r D\u00e9anta as Cloch le \u201cRoc-Cheol na\u00a0bhFathach\u201d a Sheinm n\u00f3 Stua Mara N\u00e1d\u00fartha?"},"content":{"rendered":"

(le R\u00f3isl\u00edn)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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photo: https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/3a\/Bo_Fiddle_Rock_2.jpg<\/a>,\u00a0 Bow Fiddle Rock near Portknockie, Scotland,\u00a0 Originally uploaded on July 31. 2006, Colourjam [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons,\u00a0 t\u00e9acs Gaeilge le R\u00f3isl\u00edn, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n

Before we take a break from talking about music (“ceol<\/strong>“), and specifically fiddles (“fidleacha<\/strong>“) and fiddle bows (“boghanna fidle<\/strong>“), I couldn’t resist adding one more picture for the “t\u00e9ama ceoil<\/strong>.”\u00a0 As you can see in the graphic above, the rock formation off the coast of Scotland isn’t simply a “gn\u00e1thstua mara<\/strong>,” but looks amazingly like the tip (“barr<\/strong>“) of a fiddle bow (bogha fidle<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

That more or less answers the question posed in the title I added to the graphic above:\u00a0 Barr Bogha Fidil Ollmh\u00f3r D\u00e9anta as Cloch le \u201cRoc-Cheol na bhFathach\u201d a Sheinm n\u00f3 Stua Mara N\u00e1d\u00fartha?<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0(Is It) The Tip of a Giant Fiddle Made of Stone for the Purpose of Playing the “Rock Music” of the Giants or a Natural Sea Arch?\u00a0 I’m sure you figured out the answer (“an freagra<\/strong>“).<\/p>\n

But it does suggest an interesting, if unlikely, idea.\u00a0 Perhaps the giant or giants (“an fathach n\u00f3 na fathaigh<\/strong>“) who, according to folklore, “built” the “Giant’s Causeway” in Northern Ireland splashed their way over to Scotland, accompanied by the sound a fiddle-player, and then trekked across the Highlands to the NE Scottish coast to Portknockie.\u00a0 \u00a0Then their pathway in the Antrim area became submerged in Irish Sea, and somehow, so did the fiddle, in the waters off the Scottish coast.\u00a0 \u00a0Improbable?\u00a0 Well, you never know.\u00a0 And of course we’ll never really know if some possible stone giants actually liked rock music.\u00a0 B’fh\u00e9idir \u00e9!<\/p>\n

Just to add to the intrigue, the Giant’s Causeway has two names in Irish, “Cloch\u00e1n an Aifir<\/strong>” and “Cloch\u00e1n na bhFomh\u00f3rach<\/strong>.”\u00a0 An bhfuil ainm Gaeilge n\u00f3 ainm Ghaeilge na hAlban ar<\/strong> “Bow Fiddle Rock”?\u00a0 In Irish, it could be “Cloch Bhogha Fidle,” but I’m not sure if anyone has actually used that.<\/p>\n

Actually, thinking about it all linguistically, “causeway” is typically “cabhsa<\/strong>” or “t\u00f3char<\/strong>” in Irish, not “cloch\u00e1n<\/strong>” and the Fomorians (Fomh\u00f3raigh<\/strong>) weren’t necessarily giants (fathaigh<\/strong>), but, as the saying goes, “They Might Be Giants.”\u00a0 So that brings us full circle, sort of, to the stone-like “Sleepers” in C.S. Lewis’s The Voyage of the Dawn Treader<\/em>, which prompted one of the Narnia troupe to comment, “They might be giants.”\u00a0 But sleepers, Fomorians, giants, and causeways, will have to wait for another blogpost.<\/p>\n

BTW, for a completely different interpretation of the shape of the stone arch, how about we say it’s E.T.’s head, skinny neck, and narrow shoulders.\u00a0 Given how many rock formations have been whimsically interpreted, why not?\u00a0 But actually, I love the idea that it’s a fiddle bow tip — now if I could only link it geographically to Fiddlers Elbow, we could almost be ready to rosin up the bow!<\/p>\n

Ah, but which Fiddlers Elbow, you might ask.\u00a0 There’s the island Fiddlers Elbow in the River Thames, the Fiddlers Elbow Nature Reserve in Wales, the Fiddlers Elbow Country Club and Golf Course in New Jersey (!), the Fiddlers Elbow bend in the Swatara Creek in Pennsylvania, and maybe others.\u00a0 Eolas ag duine ar bith faoi \u00e1it eile a bhfuil <\/strong>“Fiddlers Elbow” air?<\/strong><\/p>\n

BTW2, few, if any, of the places I looked at for Fiddlers Elbow seem to use the apostrophe, so we don’t know if it’s one fiddler or more than one.\u00a0 C’est la vie<\/em> and the same thing that I believe has happened to “Kings Crossing” (formerly “King’s Crossing”).\u00a0 So can I now say, “Cest la vie”<\/em>?\u00a0 \u00a0Anyway, SGF — R\u00f3isl\u00edn<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

(le R\u00f3isl\u00edn) photo: https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/3a\/Bo_Fiddle_Rock_2.jpg,\u00a0 Bow Fiddle Rock near Portknockie, Scotland,\u00a0 Originally uploaded on July 31. 2006, Colourjam [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons,\u00a0 t\u00e9acs Gaeilge le R\u00f3isl\u00edn, 2018 Before we take a break from talking about music (“ceol“), and specifically fiddles (“fidleacha“) and fiddle bows (“boghanna fidle“), I couldn’t resist adding one more picture for the…<\/p>\n

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