Anders Ahlqvist, Fergus Kelly

Ollam

Studies in Gaelic and Related Traditions in Honor of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh
Herausgeber: Boyd, Matthieu

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Produktbeschreibung

Ollam explores aspects of the Gaelic literary tradition and related traditions, with a focus on early and medieval Ireland. Topics include heroic legend, law and language, and poetry and poetics; genres covered include saga literature, law-texts, annals, bardic poetry (some of it edited and translated for the first time), and folklore.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 606g
• ISBN-13: 9781611478365
• ISBN-10: 1611478367
• Artikelnr.: 55875570

Autorenporträt

Matthieu Boyd is associate professor in the Department of Literature, Language, Writing, and Philosophy at Fairleigh Dickinson University and an associate of the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword, William Gillies (University of Edinburgh)
Preface, Matthieu Boyd (Fairleigh Dickinson University)
List of Abbreviations
Part I. Heroes
Chapter 1. The Death of Aífe's Only Son and the Heroic Biography, Kim
McCone (Maynooth University)
Chapter 2. Two by Two: The Doubled Chariot-figure of Táin Bó Cúailnge, Aled
Llion Jones (Bangor University)
Chapter 3. On Not Eating Dog, Matthieu Boyd (Fairleigh Dickinson
University)
Chapter 4. The Odrán Episode in Esnada Tige Buchet, Patricia Kelly
(University College Dublin)
Chapter 5. Moling and the Bórama, Morgan Davies (Colgate University)
Chapter 6. Wavering Heroes in the Icelandic Sagas, Rory McTurk (University
of Leeds)
Chapter 7. Heroes Humiliated: A Theme in Bardic Eulogies, Katharine Simms
(Trinity College Dublin)
Chapter 8. Annals, Histories and Stories: Some Thirteenth-century Entries
in the Annals of the Four Masters, Ruairí Ó hUiginn (Maynooth University)
Chapter 9. Cormac mac Airt in Classical Irish Poetry: Young in Age but Old
in Wisdom, a