ellan vannin

bilby commented on the word ellan vannin

Manx name for the Isle of Man.

It's also a poem, among other things recorded by the Bee Gees.

Then I hear the wavelets murmur

As they kiss the fairy shore,

Then beneath the em'rald waters

Sings the mermaid as of yore,

And the fair Isle shines with beauty

As in youth it dawned on me,

My own dear Ellan Vannin

With its green hills by the sea.

- Eliza Craven Green

August 20, 2009