Celtic linguistics book notice (fwd)

[Andrew Carnie]

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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 15:32:39 -0800
From: David Librik <librik at netcom.com>
To: celtling at mitvma.mit.edu
Subject: Celtic linguistics book notice


This is an announcement of the long-awaited publication of a new Celtic
Studies book that should be of interest to linguists and Celticists.

_A CELTIC FLORELGIUM, Studies in Memory of Brendan O Hehir_, edited by
Kathryn A. Klar, Eve E. Sweetser, and Claire Thomas, contains articles
by many well-known historical linguists and Celtic scholars.  Particularly
familiar names to linguistic readers are Eric P. Hamp, "clas: lucus a non
lucendo"; Gary Holland and John Lindow, "Irish Poetry and Norse drottkvaett";
Eve Sweetser and Kathryn Klar, "Reading The Unreadable: "Gwarchan Maeldderw"
from The Book Of Aneirin", and Calvert Watkins, "A Note on the Art of the
Syllable" as well as several others.

A CELTIC FLORELGIUM is available from:
        Celtic Studies Publications
        Division of VonKamecke Corporation
        P.O. Box 1178
        Andover, Massachusetts  01810
        U.S.A.
or in academic bookstores.

The ISBN is 0-9642446-3-2

A table of contents follows:

    DAVID N. DUMVILLE, St Patrick in Cornwall?  The Origin and
      Transmission of _Vita Tertia S. Patricii_
    VINCENT A. DUNN, Ducats, Daughters, and the Pursuit of Cattle
    PATRICK K. FORD, Re-Reading Dafydd ap Gwilym
    R. GERAINT GRUFFYDD, The Englynion of _Llyfr Aneirin_
    ERIC P. HAMP, _clas_: lucus a non lucendo
    SARAH LYNN HIGLEY, The Spoils of Annwn: Taliesin and Material
      Poetry
    GARY HOLLAND, JOHN LINDOW, Irish Poetry and Norse _drottkvaett_
    COLIN IRELAND, Aldfrith of Northumbria and the Learning of
      a _Sapiens_
    KATHRYN A. KLAR, EVE E. SWEETSER, Reading the Unreadable:
      "Gwarchan Maeldderw" from _The Book of Aneirin_
    PROINSIAS MAC CANA, Narrative Openers and Progress Markers
      in Irish
    CATHERINE McKENNA, The Hagiographic Poetics of _Canu Cadfan_
    DANIEL F. MELIA, On the Origins of LU's Marginal .r.
    JOSEPH FALAKY NAGY, Daring Young Men in their Chariots
    MICHAEL RICHTER, The Introduction of Alphabetic Writing To
      Ireland: Implications and Consequences
    EDGAR M. SLOTKIN, A Note on Early Irish Prosody
    ROBERT TRACY, Sailing Strange Seas of Thought: _Imrama_,
      Mael Duin to Muldoon
    MARIA TYMOCZKO, A Poetry of Masks: The Poet's Persona in Early
      Celtic Poetry
    CALVERT WATKINS, A Note on the Art of the Syllable
    J. E. CAERWYN WILLIAMS, The Celtic Bard