The Bob Of Fettercairn
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
THE BOB OF FETTERCAIRN (R8x24) 2C (4C set) William Campbell RSCDS Book 61- 8 1s+2s circle 4H round and back
9-16 1s lead down the middle and up to top
17-24 1s+2s dance Allemande
(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)
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On Traditional Tune Archive, Bob Of Fettercairn, tells us that: A bob in Scottish dialect has several meanings, including a tassell or a patch of grass or a plot of grain, a slight blow, the best-dressed lad or lass; or, as in the context of the title "Bob of Fettercairn", a dance.Alexander Laing used the term in this context in his Wayside Flowers (1878) in the verse Willy's Weddin' (no 113)
Hey! the rant o' Tullibardine,
Hey! the jig o' Ballangeich,
Hey! the bob o' Fettercairn;
Hey! the kindly come-agen.
Fettercairn (Scottish Gaelic: Fothair Chàrdain) is a small village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, northwest of Laurencekirk in Aberdeenshire on the B966 from Edzell.
Fettercairn is also reached via the Cairn O' Mount road (B974) from Deeside.
The name comes from the Scottish Gaelic Fothair and the Pictish carden and means "slope by a thicket". The name appeared as Fotherkern in c. 970.
Slope By A Thicket At Fettercairn, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
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