Talk:Noble Maiden Fair/@comment-3565416-20130602015300/@comment-25145771-20140706114916

I am irish and speak Irish/Gaeilge (Gealic in Irish) and this is indeed Scot's Gealic. It's highly similar but a little different. The pronunciations, spelling and layout is a bit different. Interestingly though, as from Ulster (Co. Antrim) it's actually easier for Ulster Irish Gealic speakers to understand Scot's Gealic than the Gealic used down in say Munster (Cork) for example. They has different words altogether and different dialect, whereas the Scot's Gealic is much closer :)

The other thing to remember here, is that in Gealic or indeed any other foreign language, it's not always literally word for word translated. two words could mean something. for example "Madra rua" is the word for fox. Translated it's dog red, but it's the red dog, or a fox :) just an example. So the way some of that comes back literally isn't word for word the grammatical layout that it would be translated from Gealic to Irish. So i believe the given translation to be completely correct. I doubt they would have made it a legit song in the film if they hadn't done their homework first :) probably got someone who's completely fluent in Scot's Gealic and told them they wanted it to be said as such. Or.. it's already an old Scottish song? Hard to say which it is :)