Can anyone help on this one, please?
Thanks!
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Date sent: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 09:43:47 -0800
From: Dianne Dugaw <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: The Low Road
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I am forwarding on this query and appreciate any information. Thanks in
advance....
from: Valerie Miner <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: The Low Road
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>I wanted to confirm my understanding about the
>song "The Low Road." According to Ronald Macdonald Douglas in SCOTTISH
LORE AND
>FOLKLORE, London: Beekman House, 1892--the song is an 18th century Scots
>folk song telling about two prisoners being held in England, one of who was
>to be released and who would take the High Road to Scotland, while the
>other, who was to be executed, would be taking the Low Road home. When
>Celts meet death in a foreign land, their spirits return to their
>birthplace by an underground, fairy way, The Low Road.
>
>I would like to confirm the accuracy of the above interpretation.
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>Valerie Miner
>Professor of English
>University of Minnesota
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>Minneapolis, MN 55455
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