I've had a fairly long day, so I'll just focus on a short post. In fact, I'll let the exceptional Loreena McKennitt do most of the work, with her beautiful song "The Bonny Swans." This is a slightly creepy take on swans, but given the cultural symbolism that seems to follow swans -- which is never exactly sweet and charming -- a slightly creepy take might be appropriate. Once again, I'll point out that we have a theme of people becoming swans. Why? No clue. But there's obviously something anthropomorphic about the swan.
(I've actually posted this song before, quite a while ago, but it's good enough to post twice.)
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She sings it so prettily but I had to go find the full lyrics to understand the story (I think she's abridged it). Slightly creepy but true to its time period, I think.
I think it is slightly abridged. There are several longer versions on YouTube, some of which contain the full lyrics, and they're worth listening to. She seldom plays the longer version live, though -- it's close to 7 minutes, so I can understand why.
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