Seven Hearts

I was just listening to a radio programme where Joan Armatrading was travelling around Ireland, talking to people in the Isles of Arran, as far West as you can go in Ireland, next stop Newfoundland, as the man said. Here, Irish (Gaelic) is still a spoken language, rather than just something learned in school and one native speaker said that there were whole ranges of emotions that could only be expressed in Irish. She then went on to say that one of the defining features of the tongue was the profusion of spoken blessings, when you enter a house, as greetings, on leaving, etc. She spoke the famous 'ceud mille failte' (I may have put the Scots Gaelic spelling here, as it is common on signs in the next county to me in Scotland, Highland) which means 'a hundred thousand welcomes'. Then she mentioned a common expression which translated as:
"There were seven hearts on me when I heard you were coming"
Which totally blows 'nice to see you' out of the water...