The development of style in traditional Gaelic narrative, with special reference to 'runs'
Gaelic society included a professional class of men of learning, whose origins go back to the prehistoric period. The learned men called filid were guardians of a native literature in prose and verse, transmitted by recitation and memory. Oral recitation is continuous and influential despite the int...
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University of Edinburgh
1978
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