Dear Folks,

 

I love Celtic Music.

 

Must be the Irish in me.

 

But, why are the Irish so fixated on NUT-brown?

 

Might Paul be able to give us a clue?

 

Thanks.

 

Gamma

 

Note:  The following is PRICELESS, and not half nutty....

 

 

No mistake about it....

 

The Chieftains are more important, even, than The Rolling Stones....

 

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You even have your NUT-BROWN BOWL.....

 

 

But....

Why?

 

Note: Probably, Winwood's best performance of all time....IMHO.....

 

 

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Dear Folks,

 

I love Celtic Music.

 

Must be the Irish in me.

 

But, why are the Irish so fixated on NUT-brown?

 

Might Paul be able to give us a clue?

 

Thanks.

 

Gamma

 

Note:  The following is PRICELESS, and not half nutty....

 

 

No mistake about it....

 

The Chieftains are more important, even, than The Rolling Stones....

 

====================

 

You even have your NUT-BROWN BOWL.....

 

 

But....

Why?

 

Note: Probably, Winwood's best performance of all time....IMHO.....

 

 

 

Speaking of Steve....

 

This guy has aged AMAZINGLY well, and better than 99.99-percent....

 

But.....Why?

 

What a beautiful piano....such a beauty....(Looks like a YAMAHA)...I wish it were a Steinway...

 

Maybe just because he is playing for himself, and for the love of it....???

 

Was he not always this way, though.....???

 

 

 

So far superior to BOB ....

2 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

I love Celtic Music

 

 

I thought we solved the nut-brown dilemma for you last week. Can't wait for the pea-green thread. 

I am certainly obsessed with nut-brown Issan ladies.

Cocoa brown

12 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Dear Folks,

 

I love Celtic Music.

 

Must be the Irish in me.

 

But, why are the Irish so fixated on NUT-brown?

 

"Nut brown maid" seems to have been a popular phrase in medieval times throughout the British Isles in songs, poems and folk literature. 

 

For instance, you have the ballad "The Nut-Brown Maid" that made its first printed appearance in The Customs of London, published in 1502.

 

Then there is what is said to be the most popular traditional Scottish Gaelic folk song  of all time, "Horo mo nighean donn boyche." 

 

"Mo nighean donn boyche" translates as "my nut brown maid."

 

Ireland is probably no exception to this trend.

 

Incidentally, "nut brown" refers to the hair colour of the women in question, rather than their complexion.

1 hour ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

 

"Nut brown maid" seems to have been a popular phrase in medieval times throughout the British Isles in songs, poems and folk literature. 

 

For instance, you have the ballad "The Nut-Brown Maid" that made its first printed appearance in The Customs of London, published in 1502.

 

Then there is what is said to be the most popular traditional Scottish Gaelic folk song  of all time, "Horo mo nighean donn boyche." 

 

"Mo nighean donn boyche" translates as "my nut brown maid."

 

Ireland is probably no exception to this trend.

 

Incidentally, "nut brown" refers to the hair colour of the women in question, rather than their complexion.

 

Thank you.

I knew that there was much more to the story of "nut-brown" in English literature and history.

But, I just did not know where to look.

 

Nut Brown keeps cropping up in songs that are still sung today.

But, mostly Celtic folk music, it seems, or similar music.

 

 

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Nut Brown keeps cropping up in songs that are still sung today.

But, mostly Celtic folk music, it seems, or similar music.

That's right - it isn't used in literature or poetry any more these days but still exists in Scottish/Irish folk songs, some of which go back centuries. I think it's partly because of the popularity of the phrase in Gaelic.

 

I'm not sure if you've ever watched the Outlander TV series but the primary male protagonist (who speaks Scottish Gaelic) often refers to the main female character as, "mo nighean donn" - my brown-haired lass (or maid).

50 minutes ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

That's right - it isn't used in literature or poetry any more these days but still exists in Scottish/Irish folk songs, some of which go back centuries. I think it's partly because of the popularity of the phrase in Gaelic.

 

I'm not sure if you've ever watched the Outlander TV series but the primary male protagonist (who speaks Scottish Gaelic) often refers to the main female character as, "mo nighean donn" - my brown-haired lass (or maid).

 

I have not watched the series....yet.