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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This paper seeks to explore the Scottish tradition of the poem . There is still more which could be said about the aesthetics of the refashioning of the poem within Scotland . However , the textual tradition of the poem presents some ...
This paper seeks to explore the Scottish tradition of the poem . There is still more which could be said about the aesthetics of the refashioning of the poem within Scotland . However , the textual tradition of the poem presents some ...
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If it was reforged for a new audience , it seems not to have survived in the oral tradition of that audience , though there are many potential reasons for this . Nonetheless the questions it raises about the function of refashioned and ...
If it was reforged for a new audience , it seems not to have survived in the oral tradition of that audience , though there are many potential reasons for this . Nonetheless the questions it raises about the function of refashioned and ...
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The monastic tradition is rather different . There we find stories of affection for other animals in Lives of saints ( Waddell , 1995 ; Low , 2002 , pp . 169-203 ) both in the Middle East and in the Celtic tradition , notably the Lives ...
The monastic tradition is rather different . There we find stories of affection for other animals in Lives of saints ( Waddell , 1995 ; Low , 2002 , pp . 169-203 ) both in the Middle East and in the Celtic tradition , notably the Lives ...
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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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