Kilmeny

Kilmeny,
the subject of the 13th bard's haunting supernatural song in The Queen's Wake by J. Hogg . The girl Kilmeny goes up the glen, does not return, and is mourned for dead. At last she comes back. She had been carried away from the troubles of men to ‘ane land of love, and ane land of lychte’, from which she had a vision of war and sin in the world below. She asked to return to tell her friends what she had seen, and she returns transformed and sanctified; but after a month and a day she disappears and passes again to another world.