Cànan & CultarWilson McLeod, James Earle Fraser, Anja Gunderloch Dunedin Academic Press, 2006 - 294 pages This 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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... heart ; thou wouldst have obtained wealth without selling poems- alas that thou didst ever follow the poetic craft ! Appendix 3 ( cont ) 4 Bàs Fhearchair a shearg 67 Mourning Fearchar Ó Maoilchiaráin Thomas Owen Clancy.
... heart ; thou wouldst have obtained wealth without selling poems- alas that thou didst ever follow the poetic craft ! Appendix 3 ( cont ) 4 Bàs Fhearchair a shearg 67 Mourning Fearchar Ó Maoilchiaráin Thomas Owen Clancy.
Page 68
... heart is lost ! the King hasn't left me with a safe foundation but the bare hand , without my only son there . § 5a : both MacMhurchaidh texts ( gabhthra , gabhra ) are problematic ; this seems the best resolution . Ach in § 5b could be ...
... heart is lost ! the King hasn't left me with a safe foundation but the bare hand , without my only son there . § 5a : both MacMhurchaidh texts ( gabhthra , gabhra ) are problematic ; this seems the best resolution . Ach in § 5b could be ...
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... heart was like to break . Till about twenty years ago , this custom subsisted in great purity in the West Highlands and Isles ; but it is almost threescore since the eastern Highlanders carried it to the same pitch of extravagance ...
... heart was like to break . Till about twenty years ago , this custom subsisted in great purity in the West Highlands and Isles ; but it is almost threescore since the eastern Highlanders carried it to the same pitch of extravagance ...
Contents
Contextualising the Duan Albanach | 11 |
Literary Lochlann | 25 |
Kingship imagery in Classical Gaelic panegyric for Scottish chiefs | 39 |
Copyright | |
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