ABSTRACT
It is ironic that the rich heritage of Gaelic culture should be ‘discovered’ by the scholars of the Lowlands and the upper classes of Scottish society, just as the last notes of the old line of Highland harpers faded. For most of the population this colourful bardic culture had existed hitherto unsuspected, but it now struck a deep chord with many artists, musicians and poets. And because it had been carried for centuries by oral tradition, it related to the native people and natural landscape in a way that was very much in tune with the philosophical “Zeitgeist”.
