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Scottish Gaelic in Twelve Weeks has been written both as a
self-tuition course for beginners and also for use within the
classroom. You may want to learn Gaelic because of a general
interest in Celtic or Scottish history and culture, or because it
was the everyday language of your ancestors. The cynical observer
may wonder if the exercise is worthwhile, when only 1.5 per cent of
Scotland's population speak the language. However, Gaelic is far
from dead; in some parts of the Highlands and Western Isles it is
the everyday language and it represents an important part of the
United Kingdom's cultural mix. There are Gaelic-learning classes in
almost every area of Scotland. Each lesson in the book contains
some essential points of grammar explained and illustrated,
exercises, a list of new vocabulary (with a guide to pronunciation,
using the International Phonetics Alphabet), and an item of
conversation. This new edition includes an audio download link.
A landmark of scholarship on medieval Scotland. Professor Dauvit
Broun, University of Glasgow. Personal names can provide a rich and
often overlooked window into medieval society, and Scotland's
diversity of languages over the course of the Middle Ages makes it
an ideal case study. This book offers a range of new methodological
approaches to anthroponymy, covering Gaelic, Scandinavian and other
Germanic names, as well as names drawn from the Bible, the saints,
and secular literature. Individual case studies include a
comparison of naming in early medieval Scottish and Irish
chronicles; an authoritative taxonomy of Gaelic names drawn from
twelfth and thirteenth-century charters; a revolutionary new
analysis of the emergence of surnames in Ireland, with implications
for Scottish history; a complete linguistic discussion of the
masculine Germanic names in the 1296 Ragman Roll; a detailed local
case study of saints. names in Argyll which bears on place-names as
well; and an examination of the adoption of Hebrew Old Testament
names in central medieval Scotland. Dr MATTHEW HAMMOND is a
Research Associate at Kings College London. Contributors: Rachel
Butter, Thomas Owen Clancy, John Reuben Davies, Valeria DiClemente,
Nicholas Evans, Matthew Hammond, Roibeard O Maolalaigh, David
Sellar, Tom Turpie.
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