[震憾心灵]Maciain Of Glencoe --- Moira Kerr

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[震憾心灵]Maciain Of Glencoe --- Moira Kerr
震憾心灵的一首歌

1692年英军在苏格兰北部峡谷地区Glencoe进行大屠杀，当时涌现出许多民族英雄。这首歌就是为纪念当年的事件而创作的，刻画了Celtic人心中永远的痛楚。

Moira Kerr的歌声极富苏格兰风情，毫不娇柔造作，十分耐听。此歌还是英国金榜年度百大金曲之一。


Maciain Of Glencoe --- Moira Kerr

Yet still my lonely spirit soars, amid the mountains and the glen From my ancestral burial ground,I am MacIain .
The name MacDonald echoes still,within the hearts of highland men.
My restless soul will never sleep,
I am MacIain. I am MacIain.

The royal stag stands proudly on the hill.
Falling prey to man his mortal foe.
Some men know nought of dignity or pride.
And strike with no respect their deadly blow.
Yet still my lonely spirit soars, amid the mountains and the glen.

From my ancestral burial ground, I am MacIain
The name MacDonald echoes still, within the hearts of highland men.
My restless soul will never sleep, I am MacIain.

The east is flanked by Buachaile Etive Mhor.
At south the highest Bidian is here.
Of treachery no warning will they give.
But from Signal Rock betrayal sounded clear.
Yet still my lonely spirit soars, amid the mountains and the glen.

From my ancestral burial ground, I am MacIain.
The name MacDonald echoes still, within the hearts of highland men.
My restless soul will never sleep, I am MacIain.

Yet still my lonely spirit soars, amid the mountains and the glen.

From my ancestral burial ground, I am MacIain.
The name MacDonald echoes still, within the hearts of highland men.
My restless soul will never sleep, I am MacIain.
My restless soul will never sleep, I am MacIain.I am MacIain
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Massacre of Glencoe 1692


William II and III's policy in Scotland was to force clan chieftains to subscribe an oath of loyalty to the crown. MacIain of Glencoe (a sept of the MacDonald's) was slow in doing so and eventually missed the deadline by a matter of days (he was still willing to swear the oath).

Government forces consisting, in part, of the MacDonald's bitterest enemies, the Campbells, billeted themselves upon the Glencoe population, in February 1692, and then turned against the inhabitants, massacring thirty-eight of their number and forcing countless others into the snow-topped Scottish mountains (where many died).

The attack was condemned in the Scottish parliament and led to the fall of the government of the Earl of Stair.

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The history of Glencoe and Loch Leven spans over 5000 years, but the area is most famous for a tragic night in February 1692.

The Massacre of Glencoe
The infamy of the massacre of Glencoe is not so much in the numbers killed, but in the way it was carried out. In 1691, King William the Third, recognising the resurgence of the Jacobite cause, ordered all the clan chiefs to sign an oath of allegiance by 1st January 1692. MacIain of Glencoe delayed signing the oath and when he arrived in Fort William on 31st December 1691, he found he had to go to Inveraray. Difficult travelling and the absence of a sheriff meant that MacIain did not sign the oath until 6th January 1692. MacIain returned to Glencoe believing his signature was accepted. It was however decided to punish MacIain. Campbell of Glenlyon led a group of some 128 soldiers who stayed with the MacDonalds for some 12 days and then turned on their hosts in the early morning of 13th February, killing 38 of them whilst some tried to escape into the snowy hills. The infamy of the massacre is “murder under trust” murder of those who had offered them hospitality.

A monument to the fallen MacDonalds is situated in Glencoe Village in Upper Carnoch. MacIain was buried on the island of Eilean Munde in Loch Leven opposite Ballachulish. James of the Glen.

There is a local history section which details this and other events in the “Guide to Loch Leven and Glencoe” available for £3.50 including postage.

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Glencoe: The Glen of Weeping
Much of Scotland's early recorded history is full of violence but the massacre of the MacIans (a sept of the clan Donald) in Glen Coe in 1692 still arouses the strongest passions to this day. 38 clansmen were murdered by government troops on orders approved by King William in London in an attempt at what today would be called "ethnic cleansing."

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Massacre of Glencoe


The Massacre of Glencoe was an incident in Scotland in 1692, during the era of the Glorious Revolution and the Jacobite Rebellion. Hundreds of Scottish people were killed by the army for not properly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.

In 1688, William took the throne of England and Scotland from James VII (II of England). In 1689, John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee, led Scottish Highlanders in the Jacobite uprisings in an attempt to return the throne to King James. However, James was defeated at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

In 1691, King William offered an amnesty to the Highlanders who had participated in the Jacobite Uprising on the condition that they swore allegiance to him by January 1, 1692. Nearly all did, but Alastair MacIain, 12th Chief of Glencoe, waited until the last day before setting out to take the oath. The MacIains of Glencoe were a sept of clan MacDonald.

On December 31, 1691, he travelled to Fort William and asked Colonel Hill, the governor, to administer the required oath. Colonel Hill, however, demurred on the grounds that he was not authorized to receive the necessary oath. He instructed MacIain to proceed quickly to Inverary to make his oath before Sir Colin Campbell, sheriff of Argyleshire. Colonel Hill gave MacIain a letter of protection and a letter to Sir Colin asking that he receive MacIain's oath since MacIain had come to Colonel Hill within the allotted time. Colonel Hill also reassured MacIain that no action would be taken against him without his having the opportunity to make his case before the king or the king's privy council.

It took MacIain three days to reach Inverary through the winter snow and then he had to wait another three days for the arrival of Sir Colin who was absent. Upon his return, Sir Colin reluctantly accepted MacIain's oath.

While MacIain was satisfied that he had satisfied the spirit of the required oath, and therefore did not anticipate any action against himself or his people, some elements within the government saw an opportunity to use his failure to fulfill the letter of the requirement (by missing the deadline) to at one stroke make an example of the MacDonalds and simultaneously eliminate some enemies.

A plot was set in motion which apparently involved Secretary John Dalrymple, Lord Advocate, John Campbell, Earl of Breadalbane, Sir Thomas Livingstone, commander of the forces in Scotland, the Master of Stair, and even King William, who signed and countersigned the orders.

In late January or early February, 1692, Captain Robert Campbell entered Glencoe at the head of 120 men with the ostensible purpose of collecting taxes instituted by the Scottish Parliament in 1690. About one tenth of the force were Campbells. The planning was meticulous enough that they were able to produce legitimate orders to this effect from the very Colonel Hill who had tried to help MacIain complete his oath in the first place, thus dispelling any suspicion the MacDonalds might have felt, although it was also Colonel Hill who issued the orders to begin the massacre two weeks later.

The people of Glencoe welcomed the soldiers into their homes and entertained them according to the traditions of Highland hospitality. Each morning for about two weeks, Captain Campbell visited in the home of Alexander MacDonald, MacIain's youngest son, who was married to Campbell's niece, the sister of Rob Roy.

On February 12, Captain Campbell received instructions to begin the massacre at five o'clock the following morning. He spent the evening play cards with his unsuspecting victims and upon retiring, wished them goodnight and accepted an invitation to dine with MacIain, the chief, the following day.

Another force of 400 men was to arrive early the morning of the 13th and block the entrance of the glen to ensure that no MacDonald would escape, but this force was delayed by bad weather so that some 200 MacDonald men, including John and Alexander, MacIain's two sons, were able to fly to the hills. In all, 38 men including MacIain himself were murdered and another 40 women and children died of exposure after their homes were burned.

By 1695, disgust and alarm over the tale of this massacre had grown throughout the nation to the extent that King William deemed it prudent to dismiss the Master of Stair from his councils and institute a commission of inquiry to investigate the matter. The conclusion of the commission was to exonerate the King and to place the blame for the massacre upon Secretary Dalrymple. The Scottish Parliament, after reviewing the commission report, declared the execution of the MacDonald men to have been murder and delegated the "committee for the security of the kingdom" to prepare an address to the king which included recommendations for the punishment of the perpetrators of the plot and compensation to be paid to the surviving MacDonalds. As far as is known, these recommendations were never acted upon except for the imprisonment of Lord Breadalbane for a few days in Edinburgh castle because he had opened himself to a charge of high treason.