Hey people! Today I thought we could listen to something by Loreena McKennitt, specifically from her album The Visit, from which I’ve shared quite a few songs over the years. As is the case with many songs on this album and in Loreena’s discography in general, this one was also inspired by a particular place. She was inspired to create this song while staying in Quinta das Torres – a 16th-century hunting lodge near Azeitão in Portugal, which had a courtyard ringed with orange trees. The place had a lot of pre-Christian iconography depicting themes connected to the changing of seasons. It reminded her a lot of the Unicorn Tapestries – a set of late-medieval tapestries hanging in The Cloisters, a medieval branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Upper Manhattan. These tapestries depict a hunt for a unicorn, which is eventually captured in a walled garden. The meaning of the series is very rich and layered and debated to this day. By the Middle Ages, the unicorn was no longer just a…
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