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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It seems from the foregoing evidence that this custom requires re- thinking , and may even need to be abandoned ... There would seem rather to have been a school of thought in the seventh century , and perhaps in the eighth as well ...
It seems from the foregoing evidence that this custom requires re- thinking , and may even need to be abandoned ... There would seem rather to have been a school of thought in the seventh century , and perhaps in the eighth as well ...
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In a series of places in 73.2.2 , MacMhurchaidh seems to be improving the poem , most notably in quatrain 8bc , where the , perhaps puzzlingly singular , beetle of 72.2.15 and of the Marbhna is made plural , causing him to replace ...
In a series of places in 73.2.2 , MacMhurchaidh seems to be improving the poem , most notably in quatrain 8bc , where the , perhaps puzzlingly singular , beetle of 72.2.15 and of the Marbhna is made plural , causing him to replace ...
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255 ) , although both opening and closing seem structured to pack a punch . The essential unit of the Marbhna is nonetheless the stanza , and each quatrain seems folded on itself , squeezing out from its imagery a new , sometimes ...
255 ) , although both opening and closing seem structured to pack a punch . The essential unit of the Marbhna is nonetheless the stanza , and each quatrain seems folded on itself , squeezing out from its imagery a new , sometimes ...
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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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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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