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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... term austr ( ' east ' ) to denote in fact ' north - east ' ( Einarsson , 1944 , p . 276 ; Hastrup , 1985 , p . 65 ) .3 Thus , by referring to themselves as ' east men ' , they may have been correctly signalling that they did indeed come ...
... term austr ( ' east ' ) to denote in fact ' north - east ' ( Einarsson , 1944 , p . 276 ; Hastrup , 1985 , p . 65 ) .3 Thus , by referring to themselves as ' east men ' , they may have been correctly signalling that they did indeed come ...
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... term . * - Where the earlier ' Lathlind ' fits into the dual picture is another matter . One could in fact argue that it was this term which applied originally to an actual historical place whence Viking raiders came - wherever it might ...
... term . * - Where the earlier ' Lathlind ' fits into the dual picture is another matter . One could in fact argue that it was this term which applied originally to an actual historical place whence Viking raiders came - wherever it might ...
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... term Ceum - cille Fraser gives ' Slow funeral march or dirge ' . For the term Damhsa fairire [ sic ] Fraser gives ' The dance at wakes of the dead , - supposedly a Cinquepace dance ' . This would seem to be the only record of a Gaelic ...
... term Ceum - cille Fraser gives ' Slow funeral march or dirge ' . For the term Damhsa fairire [ sic ] Fraser gives ' The dance at wakes of the dead , - supposedly a Cinquepace dance ' . This would seem to be the only record of a Gaelic ...
Contents
Contextualising the Duan Albanach | 11 |
Literary Lochlann | 25 |
Kingship imagery in Classical Gaelic panegyric for Scottish chiefs | 39 |
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