Note 12 — THE GAELIC BANNER. BRATACH NA GAELIC.

An t-alltan burn. When the Gaelic was spoken in Glenisla, the name of the stream was an t-alltan, the same as we would say in broad Scotch, the burnie, that is the small stream. But when the Gaelic ceased to be spoken, and the broad Scotch came in its place, they called it an t-alltan-burn. Now burn is taken from the Gaelic word burn, which means water, as the word whisky is taken from uisge (water), also. In singing this poem, where two, or three, or four verses are following one another without the chorus, let them be sung to the same key. It will sing to the air of “Och nan och, ’us och mo leon!”