Title: An Toll Dubh
Fandom: The Eagle
Music: "An Toll Dubh"| Runrig
Info: 02:13 minutes, 22,0 MB; XVid
Summary: "On the other side of the door there will be no sun". Gen vid.

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Taobh cùil an doruis cha bhi grian
Suidh aig bòrd
Cha bhi biadh 's cha bhi fìon
Le èiginn ar n-èirigh às ar suain
Le èiginn ar n-èirigh às ar suain
An Gaidheal 'sa leabaidh
An Gaidheal 'na shuain
Le èiginn ar n-èirigh às ar suain

Thàinig e à Sasainn ann
Thàinig e
Le eachaibh luath is iuchair throm
Le èiginn ar n-èirigh às ar suain
Le èiginn ar n-èirigh às ar suain
An Gaidheal 'sa leabaidh
An Gaidheal 'na shuain
Le èiginn ar n-èirigh às ar suain

Air làr 'san toll-dhubh cha bhi grian
Cha bhi gealach
'S dubh an oidhche chaidleas sinn
Le èiginn ar n-eirigh às ar suain
Le èiginn ar n-eirigh às ar suain
An Gaidheal 'sa leabaidh
An Gaidheal 'na shuain
Le èiginn ar n-eirigh às ar suain

Translation (found on the internets)

On the other side of the door there will be no sun
Sitting at the table
There will be no food and no wine
On the other side of the door there will be no sun
There will be no food and no wine

He came from the south
He came
On a fast horse and with a heavy key
He came from the south
On a fast horse and with a heavy key

On the dungeon floor there will be no sun
There will be no moon
Dark will be the night as we sleep
On the dungeon floor there will be no sun
Dark will be the night as we sleep

It is with difficulty that we will rise from our slumber
It is with difficulty that we will rise from our slumber
The Gael has gone to bed
The Gael is asleep
It is with difficulty that we will rise from our slumber




Additional Notes:This is one of the songs I listened to a lot during my trip to Scotland, and basically from the beginning it screamed "The Eagle" to me. I mean, it's sung in Gaelic and it has that lovely rhythm to it that almost makes it feel like some sort of tribal dance. And because of that overall atmosphere I decided to not pay too much attention to the lyrics and rather try to come up with a narrative of my own.

Given that atmosphere, it was clear for me early on I would try to focus on the Picts, and contrast them to the Romans. Subtext aside The Eagle also features one of my favourite plot devices of all time, which is a person being thrown into a society they always deemed as Barbaric, only to find out these people are not so very different from the person's people. We see precious little of the Picts in the film which is a shame, so I tried to contrast their way of life to that of the Romans--they differ in some aspects, but then again they don't all that much where it counts. The Eagle is a mystical, God-like thing to both worlds, which is why they end up fighting over it. Both a Roman and a Pict kill a young boy. Both worlds give carved toys to their children. In my personal canon, that is the lesson Marcus took from his trip.

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