Sword Dance [England]

English version of the Scottish dance Gille Callum known from oral tradition in the southern Lake District. Also known as Over the Swords or the Cross Swords Dance.

Known to have been taught by the following dancing masters:

Dizzy Bryden of Whitehaven
Tommy Cannon of Underbarrow and Crosthwaite
Marion Cowper of Whitehaven
Alfred Threlfall Robinson
Joseph Robinson (Old Jos)
Stainton Robinson of Windermere

A notation for the dance was provided by Diddy Dixon,  Mary Hawes. and Marion Cowper with extra information from Fred Coward and Riley, Emma C.

Information derived from interviews by Tom Flett with:

and from correspondence with Norman Robinson1962