Cànan & CultarThis volume is a collection of proceedings from the third Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig conference held in Edinburgh in July 2004. The book includes papers on Scottish Gaelic history, language, literature, and culture from early Christian times to the present. In addition to Scotland, there is material relating to Ireland, Scandinavia, England, and Canada. Where papers are written in Gaelic, a detailed synopsis in English is included. |
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1 Dux Reuda and the Corcu Réti James E. Fraser Writing at the end of the first third of the eighth century , the Bernician monastic scholar Bede was given to know that the Dalreudini , as he called them , were an Irish people that had ...
1 Dux Reuda and the Corcu Réti James E. Fraser Writing at the end of the first third of the eighth century , the Bernician monastic scholar Bede was given to know that the Dalreudini , as he called them , were an Irish people that had ...
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... where to this day there is a most strongly fortified British ciuitas called Al Cluith [ Clyde Rock , Dumbarton ] ; it was to the northern part of this arm that the Scotti , whom we have mentioned , made their homeland upon arriving ...
... where to this day there is a most strongly fortified British ciuitas called Al Cluith [ Clyde Rock , Dumbarton ] ; it was to the northern part of this arm that the Scotti , whom we have mentioned , made their homeland upon arriving ...
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Ostmanni lingua ipsorum ' ( ' they called themselves Ostmanni in their own language ' ) ( Dimock , 1867 , Vol . 5 , p . 187 ) . Similarly , the Annals of St Mary's Abbey in Dublin state that ' notandum vero quod Norwagienses seu ...
Ostmanni lingua ipsorum ' ( ' they called themselves Ostmanni in their own language ' ) ( Dimock , 1867 , Vol . 5 , p . 187 ) . Similarly , the Annals of St Mary's Abbey in Dublin state that ' notandum vero quod Norwagienses seu ...
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Contents
Contextualising the Duan Albanach | 11 |
Literary Lochlann | 25 |
Kingship imagery in Classical Gaelic panegyric for Scottish chiefs | 39 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
adjectives agus airson Alba animals appears bhith called century chaidh Chambers Chan eil complex composed concordance cuid cuideachd dance death dhèanamh Domhnaill eadar early English example faic fear formal prose gach Gaelic Gaels Gàidhlig genitive give given gu bheil gu robh Highlands Iain iarainn interesting Ireland Irish kings language leis lines Loch Lochlann material math mentioned modified nach nonconcordance noted noun nuair obair original perhaps phrase poem poetry position possible prepositional present printed reference registers relation robh says Scotland Scottish seems sinn sources speakers stad suggested Table term thaobh thug toirt tradition translation uair uile University variation wake writing
Bibliographic information
| Title | Cànan & Cultar Scottish Gaelic Studies Series |
| Editors | Wilson McLeod, James Earle Fraser, Anja Gunderloch |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Dunedin Academic Press, 2006 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Apr 2008 |
| ISBN | 1903765609, 9781903765609 |
| Length | 294 pages |
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