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“Come back! Come back!” he cried in grief Across this stormy water. And I’ll forgive your highland chief. My daughter! - O my daughter!” (a) Who is ‘he’? (b) Why, did ‘he’ urge her to come back?

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Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:

“Come back! Come back!” he cried in grief
Across this stormy water.
And I’ll forgive your highland chief.
My daughter! - O my daughter!”

(a) Who is ‘he’?

(b) Why, did ‘he’ urge her to come back?

(c) Could the change in ‘his’ heart save his daughter?

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(a) ‘He’ is Lord Ullin.

(b) ‘He’ urged her to come back because she was sure to be swallowed by the sea in that stormy weather.

(c) No, the change in ‘his’ heart could not save his daughter. She and her lover, the Chieftain of Ulva isle, were drowned in the sea.

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