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24/02/2005

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Poet Domhnall Uilleam Stewart takes on one of Scotland's most remote mountains.

Poet Domhnall Uilleam Stewart takes on A 'Mhaighdean, one of Scotland's most remote and beautiful mountains, and writes a contemporary poem in tribute to Duncan Ban MacIntyre.

Da bheinn, da bhàrd ach da cheud gu leth bliadhna eatarra . Beinn Dorain ann an Earraghaidheal agus A' Mhaighdinn air taobh siar Rois; na beanntan agus na bàird Dòmhnall Ban Mac an t-Saoir agus Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart. Tha Stiùbhart a' gabhail air eòlas a chuir air A' Mhaighdinn , a' sreap agus a' sealg ach 's e an dùbhlan as motha rannan molaidh a chuir an cèill a' leantainn eisimpleir Dhunnachaidh Bhàn air Beinn Dorain.

Two mountains, two poets and 250 years of changing attitudes to the Highland landscape are the elements of this intriguingly different film. The mountains are Beinn Dorain in Argyll and A' Mhaighdinn in the Fisherfields 'wilderness' of Wester Ross. The poets are Duncan Ban MAcIntyre and Domhnall UIlleam Stewart who takes on both the physical challenges of A' Mhaighdinn, one of Scotland's most remote and beautiful Munros and the even more considerable creative challenge involved in writing a contemporary poem in tribute to Duncan Ban's 18th century masterpiece 'In praise of Beinn Dorain'.

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