Ollam : studies in Gaelic and related traditions in honor of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh / / edited by Matthieu Boyd

• Pubblicazione: Madison, [Wisconsin] ; ; Teaneck, [New Jersey] : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (372 p.)
• Disciplina: 891.6/209001
• Soggetto topico: Irish philology; Scotch Irish philology
• Persona (resp. second.): BoydMatthieu
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; Part One: HEROES; 1: The Death of Aífe's Only Son and the Heroic Biography; 2: Two by Two: The Doubled Chariot-Figure of Táin Bó Cúailnge; 3: On Not Eating Dog; 4: The Odrán Episode in Esnada Tige Buchet; 5: Moling and the Bórama; 6: Wavering Heroes in the Icelandic Sagas; 7: Heroes Humiliated: A Theme in Bardic Eulogies; 8: Annals, Histories, and Stories: Some Thirteenth-Century Entries in the Annals of the Four Masters; 9: Cormac mac Airt in Classical Irish Poetry: Young in Age but Old in Wisdom, and Not Entirely Flawless ; 10: "Bhí an saol aoibhinn ait": Cormac mac Airt in Oral Folk TraditionPart Two: LAW AND LANGUAGE; 11: Below Ground: A Study of Early Irish Pits and Souterrains; 12: Recholl Breth: Why It Is a "Shroud of Judgments"; 13: Comparing Like to (Un)like: Parables, Words, and Opinions in Romance and Irish; 14: On the Line-Break in Early Irish Verse, and Some Remarks on the Syntax of the Genitive in Old and Middle Irish; 15: "Dubad nach innsci": Cultivation of Obscurity in Medieval Irish Literature; Part Three: POETRY; 16: Pangur Bán; 17: Finn's Student Days; 18: A Poem by Eochaidh Ó hEódhusa ; 19: The dánta grá and the Book of the Dean of Lismore21: Terms of Art: Theorizing Poetry in the Earliest Welsh Anthology; Bibliography of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh; Other Works Cited; Index; About the Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a book of original essays on aspects of the Gaelic literary tradition and related traditions, with a focus on early and medieval Ireland, by some of the world's preeminent scholars. 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ollam
• ISBN: 1-61147-835-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797908403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II