{"title":"The transmission of glosses. Script size and Irish legal commentary","authors":"C. Eska","doi":"10.1353/cel.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cel.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Script size has long been used as one of the factors to distinguish the early Irish legal tracts from their accompanying glosses and commentary. This article examines the role of script size used in Irish legal manuscripts and argues that it is an unreliable guide. Heptads 64 and 65 will be used as a case study to argue this point.","PeriodicalId":160851,"journal":{"name":"North American journal of Celtic studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127491947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wales, the Welsh, and the making of America by Vivienne Sanders (review)","authors":"Melinda A. Gray","doi":"10.1353/cel.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cel.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":160851,"journal":{"name":"North American journal of Celtic studies","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134146392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Madog of Edeirnion’s Strenua cunctorum. A Welsh-Latin poem in praise of Geoffrey of Monmouth","authors":"Joshua B. Smith","doi":"10.1353/cel.2022.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cel.2022.0000","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article offers an edition, translation, and study of Madog of Edeirnion’s Strenua cunctorum, a Welsh-Latin poem from the thirteenth century. The poem serves as a preface for Madog’s own peculiar recension of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s De gestis Britonum, and, as such, it is valuable as one of the few direct commentaries on Geoffrey’s history surviving from medieval Wales. In general, Madog’s poem tells a familiar story: the medieval Welsh approached Geoffrey’s De gestis Britonum with pride and enthusiasm. This article also addresses the identity of Madog of Edeirnion, arguing that the conflation with the Welsh-language poet Madog ap Gwallter is mistaken and that the two should be considered separate authors. Finally, this article takes into account the early modern copy of the poem found in Corpus Christi College MS 281 to suggest that Madog’s poem might have circulated in late medieval Wales.","PeriodicalId":160851,"journal":{"name":"North American journal of Celtic studies","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124275388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Arthur in the Celtic languages. The Arthurian legend in Celtic literatures and traditions ed. by Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan & Erich Poppe (review)","authors":"Matthieu Boyd","doi":"10.1353/cel.2021.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cel.2021.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":160851,"journal":{"name":"North American journal of Celtic studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129777315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paleoetnología de la Hispania Céltica. Etnoarqueología, etnohistoria y folklore by Pedro R. Moya-Maleno (review)","authors":"David Wallace-Hare","doi":"10.1353/cel.2021.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cel.2021.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":160851,"journal":{"name":"North American journal of Celtic studies","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125606580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Remarks on pragmatic fronting and poetic overdetermination in Middle Cornish","authors":"J. Eska, B. Bruch","doi":"10.1353/cel.2021.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cel.2021.0014","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:As a verb-second language, one expects Middle Cornish to allow only a single argument/complement to appear in the left periphery of affirmative root clauses. Object personal pronouns never occur in the left periphery, but a full non-adjunct XP and subject personal pronoun do, in fact, coöccur in 329 clauses in our corpus—in that order, in all but a single token—, presumably owing to poetic overdetermination, which alters the morphosyntax and surface configuration in order to enable the required syllable-count or end-rhyme in the verse line. George 1990 & 1991, based upon an analysis of Beunans Meriasek, finds five tokens of full object DP and subject personal pronoun which coöccur in the left periphery, which, he states, are not motivated by poetic overdetermination. He concludes, on that basis, that the construction is generated by the grammar. In this paper, we collect all of the tokens of this construction in the verse corpus of Middle Cornish and propose that they are all, ultimately, motivated by poetic overdetermination, not only in order to enable the required syllable-count or end-rhyme, but sometimes also to encode pragmatic information.","PeriodicalId":160851,"journal":{"name":"North American journal of Celtic studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121531423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identification copula clauses linking substantives of different gender in Early and Classical Irish","authors":"D. Mcmanus","doi":"10.1353/cel.2021.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cel.2021.0012","url":null,"abstract":"<p>abstract:</p><p>This paper investigates identification copula clauses linking substantives of different gender, e.gg., as in OIr. <i>Críst</i> <i>didiu, is sí in</i> <i>chathir</i> ‘Christ, then, is the city’ and CIr. <i>An</i> <i>leabhar</i><i>, is í an</i> <i>eagna</i> ‘The book is wisdom’; the copula identification clause with pronominal subject, e.gg., MIr. <i>Iss</i> <i>é</i> <i>mo lennán</i> <i>é</i> ‘He is my beloved’ and CIr. <i>Is é an seanadh</i> <i>hé</i> ‘It is the old tradition’; and the Classical Irish type with substantives of different gender and subject pronoun, e.g., <i>Mo</i> <i>theanga</i><i>, is é</i> <i>m’arm</i><i>-sa</i> <i>í</i> ‘My tongue is my weapon’. It argues that the pronoun following the copula in such phrases is a mere shoe-horn to the following defined substantive, that the <i>iss é mo lennán é</i> type should not be classified under the rubric ‘repetition of the pronoun’, as is often done, and seeks to explain why the construction <i>Mo theanga, is é m’armsa í</i>, with different gender in the substantives, is more likely to be encountered in Classical verse than the type with just one gender.</p>","PeriodicalId":160851,"journal":{"name":"North American journal of Celtic studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126866954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sacred sisters. Gender, sanctity, and power in medieval Ireland by Maeve Brigid Callan (review)","authors":"D. Africa","doi":"10.1353/cel.2021.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cel.2021.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":160851,"journal":{"name":"North American journal of Celtic studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133908523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"One thing leads to another. An Old Irish dialogue between Cormac and Coirpre on the legal consequences of seduction","authors":"C. Eska","doi":"10.1353/cel.2021.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cel.2021.0008","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article provides a critical edition and translation of a dialogue between the mythical king, Cormac, and his son, Coirpre. In the first part, Coirpre confesses to raping a woman. Cormac asks why he did such a thing, and Coirpre’s excuses for his actions follow in a series of repetitive questions and answers. The second part of the dialogue is ascribed entirely to Cormac and forms his ‘instructions’ to his son. They describe the steps from flirtation to kissing to seduction to conception without resorting to violence. Cormac’s ‘instructions’ also touch upon the real legal consequences of begetting a child, whether by rape or consent.","PeriodicalId":160851,"journal":{"name":"North American journal of Celtic studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128188489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The poetics of irony in Middle Irish literature","authors":"Elizabeth Boyle","doi":"10.1353/cel.2021.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cel.2021.0013","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article seeks to establish a poetics of irony in Early Middle Irish literature centring on anticlerical irreverence, misogyny, and ethnic stereotyping. Using a cluster of tenth-century narratives in the Book of Leinster, this study reads within and between texts to attempt to delineate conventions of genre and style which can be used to make the case for ironic readings of these and other texts. It is tentatively suggested that such anecdote-length humorous texts may have been used for pedagogical purposes, and the relationship between anticlerical texts and those which critique poets is briefly explored.","PeriodicalId":160851,"journal":{"name":"North American journal of Celtic studies","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115881838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}