Coronach

This is the Scottish Lowland "coronach," characteristic and expressive as the wailing of the pipes to the Gael or the keening of women among the wild Eirionach. ❋ Unknown (1887)

Through.] [Footnote 6: A coronach is a funeral song or lamentation, from the ❋ Alfred Tennyson Tennyson (1850)

Two or three women sate under the gallows, who seemed to be mourning, and singing the coronach of the deceased in a low voice. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There shall never be coronach cried, or dirge played, for thee or thy bloody wolf-burd. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“Naihah” more generally “Naddábah” Lat. præfica or carina, a hired mourner, the Irish “Keener” at the conclamatio or coronach, where the Hullabaloo, Hulululu or ❋ Unknown (2006)

The instant the distant wail of the coronach was heard proceeding from the attendants on the funeral barge, all the subordinate sounds of lamentation were hushed at once, as the raven ceases to croak and the hawk to whistle whenever the scream of the eagle is heard. ❋ Unknown (2008)

She was roused from her stupor at length by female voices, which cried the coronach, or lament for the dead, with clapping of hands and loud exclamations; while the melancholy note of a lament, appropriate to the clan Cameron, played on the bagpipe, was heard from time to time. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If she permitted her eye to glance farther into futurity, it was but to anticipate that she must be for many a day cold in the grave, with the coronach of her tribe cried duly over her, before her fair-haired Hamish could, according to her calculation, die with his hand on the basket-hilt of the red claymore. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The coronach was again, and for the last time, shrieked as the body was carried into the interior of the church, where only the nearest relatives of the deceased and the most distinguished of the leaders of the clan were permitted to enter. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Farewell to you for a while, and if you will go to the top of the Tom an Lonach behind the house, you will see a gallant sight, and hear such a coronach as will reach the top of Ben ❋ Unknown (2008)

But when they fell there was none to sing their coronach or wail the death-wail over them. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Mrs. Gwilty was, she explained, showing her niece the way of a proper coronach. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (2005)

A bacchanalian drunk; a Jupiter and Leda, at least equal to that in the gallery at Florence; an old praesica, or hired mourner, very much resembling those wrinkled hags still employed in Ireland, and in the Highlands of Scotland, to sing the coronach at funerals, in praise of the deceased; the famous ❋ Unknown (2004)

Three of the Highlanders were killed, and they brought them in wrapped in their plaids, and laid them on the stone floor of the hall; and next morning, their wives and daughters came, clapping their hands, and crying the coronach, and shrieking, and carried away the dead bodies, with the pipes playing before them. ❋ Unknown (2004)

On our arrival, however, we found we had committed a small oversight, in leaving the corpse behind; so we were obliged to wheel about, and met the old gentlewoman half way, being carried upon poles by the nearest relations of her family, and attended by the coronach, composed of ❋ Unknown (2004)

At the grave, the orator, or senachie, pronounced the panegyric of the defunct, every period being confirmed by a yell of the coronach. ❋ Unknown (2004)

And while Charlie did the job, the Hoka skirled forth a coronach. ❋ Anderson, Poul (2000)

Invernessshire, never was the wail of the coronach heard on a more ignoble occasion, than on the summons of the Master of Lovat, in the ❋ Mrs. Thomson (N/A)

And then arose the cry of the coronach, that wail, appropriate to the dead, but uttered also by women, as the fiery cross roused them from their peaceful occupations, and hurried from them their sons and their husbands. ❋ Mrs. Thomson (N/A)