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  • Norman MacLeod (The Wicked Man)

    Scottish clan chief

    For other people with the same name, see Norman Macleod.

    Norman MacLeod

    Portrait of Norman MacLeod, c. 1747, by Allan Ramsay

    In office
    1741–1754
    Preceded bySir James Grant, Bt.
    Succeeded byPryse Campbell
    Preceded byJohn MacLeod (brother)
    Succeeded byNorman 'the General' (grandson)
    Born(1705-07-29)29 July 1705
    Died21 July 1772(1772-07-21) (aged 66)
    St Andrews
    Resting placeSt Andrew's Cathedral
    Spouses

    Janet Macdonald

    (m. 1724; death 1743)​

    Anne Martin

    (m. 1748)​
    Children8
    Parent(s)Norman MacLeod (father); Anne Fraser (mother)

    Norman MacLeod of MacLeod (Scottish Gaelic: Tormod MacLeòid) (1705–1772), also known as The Wicked Man (Scottish Gaelic: An Droch Dhuine), was an 18th-century Scottish politician and the 22nd Chief of Clan MacLeod.

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    Norman was the younger son of Norman MacLeod, the 20th Chief of Clan MacLeod. Norman's brother, John, was briefly the 21st Chief of Clan MacLeod as an infant after their father died in 1706. By 1707, John had also died, and Norman was left with the chiefdom at the age of 1.

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    The Skye Boat Song

    19th-century Scottish song

    "The Skye Boat Song" (Roud 3772) is a late 19th-century Scottish song adaptation of a Gaelic song composed c.1782 by William Ross, entitled Cuachag nan Craobh ("Cuckoo of the Tree").[1] In the original song, the composer laments to a cuckoo that his unrequited love, Lady Marion Ross, is rejecting him. The 19th century English lyrics instead evoked the journey of Prince Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie") from Benbecula to the Isle of Skye as he evaded capture by government soldiers after his defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746.

    Sir Harold Boulton, 2nd Baronet composed the new lyrics to Ross's song which had been heard by Anne Campbell MacLeod in the 1870s, and the line "Over the Sea to Skye" is now a cornerstone of the tourism industry on the Isle of Skye.

    Alternative lyrics to the tune were written by Robert Louis Stevenson, probably in 1885. After hearing the Jacobite airs sung by a visitor, he judged the lyrics to be "unworthy", so made a new set of verses "more in harmony with the plaintive tune".[2]

    It is often played as a slow lullaby or waltz, and entered into the modern folk canon in the twentieth century with versions by Paul Robeson, Tom Jones, Rod Stewart, Roger Whittaker