Thomas Stephens was one of the most significant and controversial nineteenth-century Welsh scholars.
A Celtic Florilegium
Studies in Memory of Brendan O Hehir
Kathryn A. Klar (Editor), Eve E. Sweetseer (Editor), Claire Thomas (Editor)
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Publisher: Celtic Studies Publication
ISBN: 9780964244634
Year of Publication: 1997
Series:
Volume: 2
Binding: Hardback
Language: English
Pages: 226
Nineteen papers on early medieval Irish and Welsh texts. Contents include: St Patrick in Cornwall? The origin and transmission of Vita Tertia S. Patricii ( David Dumville ); Re-reading Dafydd ap Gwilym ( Patrick Ford ); The spoils of Annwn: Taliesin and material poetry ( Sarah Lynn Higley ); Aldfirth of Northumbria and the learning of a sapiens ( Colin Ireland ); Narrative openers and progress markers in Irish ( Proinsias Mac Cana ); The Hagiographic poetics of Canu Cadfan ( Catherine McKenna ); The introduction of alphabetic writing to Ireland ( Michael Richter ); Daring young men in their chariots ( Joseph Falaky Nagy ); The Celtic bard ( J. E. Caerwyn Williams).
Reviews and Quotes
Individual readers will identify favourite blooms, while being stimulated by many more in this Celtic Florilegium.
(Máire ní Mhaonaigh 36 (1998), p. 110)
Welsh page: https://astudiaethauceltaidd.cymru/
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