Table of Contents

1 Dux Reuda and the Corcu Reti James E. Fraser 2 Contextualising the 'Duan Albanach' Mark Zumbuhl 3 Literary Lochlann Maire Ni Mhaonaigh 4 Kingship imagery in Classical Gaelic panegyric for Scottish chiefs Pia Dewar 5 Mourning Fearchar O Maoilchiarain: texts, transmission and transformation Thomas Owen Clancy 6 Cunnart, Eadar-Theangair ag Obair: Eachdraidh a' Phrionnsa le Iain MacCoinnich Raghnall MacilleDhuibh 7 Sorley MacLean's 'An Cuilthionn': the emergence of the text Christopher Whyte 8 'Dh'fhiosraich mi Ceitean': call ann am bardachd an Ath-bheothachaidh Moray Watson 9 'Cleiffis of Irne': Clann Choinnich agus gniomhachas iarainn, c.1569-1630 Aonghas MacCoinnich 10 The noun phrase in Gaelic speech and writing William Lamb 11 Dialect variation in Gaelic relative clauses David Adger and Gillian Ramchand 12 Cunntas air an stad ghlotasach ann an Gaidhlig ceann a deas Earra Ghaidheal George Jones 13 Gaelic in Canada: new evidence from an old census Jonathan Dembling 14 Dancing with the dead: a ritual dance at wakes in the Scottish Highlands Michael Newton 15 The spiritual status of animals in Carmina Gadelica I-II Mary Low 16 Suil air ais - agus air adhart: rannsachadh na Gaidhlig anns an fhicheadamh linn agus anns a' chiad linn air fhichead Domhnall E. Meek

About the Author

Wilson McLeod is Senior Lecturer in Celtic at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures of the University of Edinburgh. James E. Fraser and Anja Gunderloch are Lecturers in Celtic and Scottish Studies in the same school.