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Celtic Languages V. SCOTTISH GAELIC STUDIES By DERICK S. THOMSON, Professor of Celtic, University of Glasgow I. GENERAL An important earlier publication was Kenneth Jackson's The Gaelic .Notes in the Book of Deer, CUP, 1972, xv + 164 pp. This is a new ed. of the 12th-c. Gaelic notitiae, which have frequently been edited before, together with a valuable historical com- mentary. The ed. is definitive in many respects, though a few doubts remain over the interpretation of linguistic evidence relating to the divergence of Irish and Scottish Gaelic. There is an important rev. (especially of the linguistic evidence) by David Greene in SH, 1972:167-7o. John Bannerman's Studies in the History of Dalriada, Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press, ix + 178 pp., has as its core a new ed. of the text Senchus Fer nAlban, an originally 7th-c. account of the genealogies of the ruling families of DalRiata and a partial census of their military and economic organization. In addition to the transl. of this text, and other apparatus, there is a detailed discussion of its historical context and significance, together with a fresh synthesis of evidence bearing on the postulated 8th-c. Iona Chronicle. There is a chap. on the
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Published: Mar 13, 1975
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