Challenge #25 of the 26 by 26 challenge was:
Lookup the meaning of “hiraeth” and take a photo of it.
– Bryan Schutmaat
Wikipedia says: Hiraeth is a Welsh word that has no direct English translation. The University of Wales, Lampeter attempts to define it as homesickness tinged with grief or sadness over the lost or departed. It is a mix of longing, yearning, nostalgia, wistfulness, or an earnest desire for the Wales of the past.
I hope I have captured some ‘hiraeth’ in this photo
© Rebel’s Notes
Marie, I love this photo, it, and the word are very thought provoking.
Flip xx
Thank you, Flip 🙂 xox
Your beautiful picture provoked such a strong response in me. A very emotive depiction of the word.
Xxxx
I am happy to know this picture and the word touched people 🙂 xox
You have gorgeous hair. Lovely pic.
Thanks, Beck 🙂
Great job interpreting the challenge, and thanks for teaching us a new word! Bigger thanks, though, for sharing this picture; as usual your hair glows beautifully, and gives me naughty thoughts of feeling it against me.
I’m glad I could give you some naughty thoughts 😉
You captured the word beautifully. The photo is longing yet passionate. I loved the poem that Mia shared as well. Your red hair a fiery sunset. Stunning.
Thanks for your nice comment, Maria 🙂
Lovely word and lovely photo- very expressive.
Thanks, Serafina 🙂
New word for the vocab! and I do believe you have expressed it beautifully… your hair is amazing 🙂
~Kazi xxx
Thank you, Kazi 🙂 xox
Difficult word to capture, but I say you did it well! I love the color of your hair!!
Thank you hun!
I learned a new word. I view hair as seductive, sexy and yours is both. I think this is another one of my favorites this week.
Thank you, SassyCat 🙂
Gorgeous shot Rebel! I am in love with your hair. 🙂
xxPenny
Thanks, Penny. I am definitely in love with it too 🙂
Rebel xox
That can’t be a Welsh word as it has vowels in it. And it’s well known that the dragon ate all the vowels in the Wales millennia ago! 😉
Great photo! ;-p
Haha funny guy! Thanks 😉
Wow this is such an unusual and lovely photograph. Beautiful!!!
Xxx – K
Thanks, K 🙂 xox
Gorgeous hair! But I also love the way you managed to capture hiraeth in the image.
Thanks hun, this might just be the most successful portrayal of a challenge 🙂
You have some beautiful red hair the color of it is perfect.
Thanks, Heaven 🙂
Beautiful, beautiful image!
You made me have a look at this word myself and I came across this dialogue about the word and beautiful poem by Tim Davis:-
“Hiraeth is a Cymraeg (Welsh) word which doesn’t translate well into English. It is a deep longing for home. This poem makes an attempt at defining it. It is pronounced with two syllables. The first is like the English here except that the r is stronger. The second syllable is like how a mathematician would pronounce i-th as in the ith row of a matrix. You could also say eye-th.
With a last name of Davis, it should be no surprise that my Davis ancestor was born in Wales in the early 1600’s. I found this out several years after writing this poem. The westward theme is in the poem because going home to Cymru (Wales) means traveling west (from, say, England).
Hiraeth beckons with wordless call,
Hear, my soul, with heart enthrall’d.
Hiraeth whispers while earth I roam;
Here I wait the call “come home.”
Like seagull cry, like sea borne wind,
That speak with words beyond my ken,
A longing deep with words unsaid,
Calls a wanderer home instead.
I heed your call, Hiraeth, I come
On westward path to hearth and home.
My path leads on to western shore,
My heart tells me there is yet more.
Within my ears the sea air sighs;
The sunset glow, it fills my eyes.
I stand at edge of sea and earth,
My bare feet washed in gentle surf.
Hiraeth’s longing to call me on,
Here, on shore, in setting sun.
Hiraeth calls past sunset fire,
“Look beyond, come far higher!”
Source : http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~davis/Poetry/hiraeth.html
I hope you enjoyed!
~Mia~ xx
Ps – the last paragraph of the poem reminded me of your red hair in your photo.
~Mia~ xx
Awww thanks luv!
I definitely enjoyed that! Thank you, Mia 🙂 xox
indeed you did!
🙂
Such a beautiful word and an even lovelier image to go along with it.
Stella
Xxx
Thank you, Stella 🙂
Gorgeous shot to go with the challenge. Plus your hair is so beautiful!
Thanks, Bunny 🙂
I think you have captured the elusive meaning of this word quite well.
Thank you 🙂
I’ve never heard of that word personally but it sounds a wonderful yet complex word and I think after reading your added text, that you’ve captured it very well. I love that flame coloured hair just gorgeous x
Thanks hun. This was also the first time I heard of this word 🙂
I’m with Malflic on having a visual reaction, then reading, and having another.
Well done. Love the color of your hair
Thanks hun!
I had two reactions to the picture the first was purely visceral and lust filled on first sight. The second was after reading the text. Both of which caused me to think and feel something; very well done!
Thank you for your wonderful comment! 😀
Its the red hair, looks like a fiery glow around you… passion and heat. Great shot
Mollyxxx
Thanks, Molly 🙂 xox
Love the image and yes Hiraeth is a beautiful word difficult to define x
Thanks, Munchie 🙂
Hiraeth is difficult to define. Your picture is great! Your Hair is Beautiful!
Thank you, Fred 🙂