A Fairy's Love Song In the last issue of ‘Te Ao Hou’ there was published the music and text of a love song said to have been sung by a fairy chief named Te Rangipouri. The text has been recorded in several places, notably in Apirana Ngata's ‘Nga Moteatea’ (song no. 38), but despite the notes given in this collection and elsewhere, there are some obscure references in the song. Since Te Ao Hou's translation was published we have found a story in which this song occurs. Published only in English, it is a translation of one of the Maori manuscripts collected by Edward Shortland in the middle years of the last century, and it appears in his book ‘Maori Religion and Mythology’ pp. 47–50. This story, which tells how the humans won back the woman and through their command of magic defeated the fairies' attempt to recapture her, explains most of the obscurities in the song. M.O.
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Te Ao Hou, December 1965, Page 21
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