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{"title":"A Newly Discovered Fragment of the Early Irish Wisdom-Text Tecosca Cormaic in TCD MS 1298 (H. 2. 7)","authors":"M. Fomin","doi":"10.54586/ocrx4198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54586/ocrx4198","url":null,"abstract":"In 1909, a century ago, ‘Instructions of Cormac’ were edited and translated by Kuno Meyer (Tecosca Cormaic. The Instructions of King Cormaic Mac Airt. RIA Todd Lecture Series 15, Dublin). Meyer provided a normalised Old Irish version of the text which he mainly based on the readings of 23 N 10 (RIA 967, hereinafter N¹) and 23 D 2 (RIA 132, hereinafter D) manuscripts. He admitted that while N¹ was “a careful and trustworthy copy on the whole”, D contained “both the most complete and by far the best copy of the Tecosca” (Meyer, opp. cit., ix). However, a short fragment of initial part of Tecosca Cormaic that was not taken into account by Meyer is contained in H. 2. 7 (TCD 1298) manuscript. Starting immediately after the closing lines of Audacht Moraind, its opening two columns fill up lines 33–37 of the folio 420a – then the text continues on folio 421a–b in four columns and finishes off in the middle of 422a with the words ar is triasna techtaib sin do miditer rig ⁊ flaith ol cormac fri cairbre that correspond to the end of §6 according to Meyer’s edition. This fragment contains one of the earliest and most intriguing versions of the text. It cannot be definitely assigned to any of Meyer’s recensions, however, on the basis of its linguistic features, the order of its sections and some additional material, contained only in N¹, N² and H. 2. 7 one can probably maintain that it was based on version which was also used as one of the sources for the compilation of N¹. In our talk, we will look at various paleographic features of the text, such as the treatment of OIr. mr-, unstressed -e-, absence of -a- glides, preservation of -n- after -l- later verbal formations, as well as at some orthographical and grammatical nuances, eg. archaic features, nasalised genitive constructions, distinction of final vowels -a, -o, -u, etc. and finally propose a revised stemma of various recensions of Tecosca Cormaic.","PeriodicalId":370965,"journal":{"name":"Studia Celto-Slavica","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125301960","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 Land Acquisition Motif in the Irish and Russian Folklore Traditions","authors":"M. Fomin, D. Brozović-Rončević, R. Matasović","doi":"10.54586/hxar3954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54586/hxar3954","url":null,"abstract":"The paper is devoted to a treatment of later narrative forms from Irish and Russian folklore traditions that preserved some archaic cognitive structures to do with the notions of space, territory and its domestication. The Irish tale ‘St. Columcille on Tory’ (‘Colm Cille i dToraigh’, Béaloideas 21 (1951-52) 196-198 cf. Betha Colaim Cille by M. Ó Domhnaill, ed. Kelleher & Schoepperle, §111) describes St. Columcille’s visit to the island of Tory. The saint has to overcome the determination of the other two saints, Begley and Finnian, who desire to step onto the island before him, and the resistance of the local king. In order to succeed with his mission, firstly St. Columcille wins a conquest over the saints and throws his staff so that it miraculously transforms into a spear and reaches the island, and, secondly, conquers the territory of the island by laying his cloak which covers the whole ground. The king of the island sets a malicious hound against the saint, but the latter makes the sign of the cross over the dog which is thus killed. The Russian tale ‘The Frog Princess’ (‘Царевна-лягушка’, А. Н. Афанасьев, Народные русские сказки, IV, М., 1912, № 269, 264-7) represents a wide-spread type of a fairy tale The Frog as a Bride (= АТ 402). In the tale, the king sets his three sons on a quest to find their future wives. The sons shoot three arrows who are taken by a merchant’s daughter, by a boyar’s daughter and by a frog – to whom the youngest of the three is married. The king then sets three difficult tasks to his daughters-in-law, one of which is the weaving of a carpet. The frog princess succeeds in her completion of the tasks, finally taking a form of a beautiful ‘supernatural wife’. While she is still in this form, the youngest prince burns the frog skin in the stove. Having done that, he loses his wife to the Otherworld and has to win her over again. I shall argue that both accounts preserved a well-attested ancient motif of the domestication of the territory, later treated in terms of the acquisition of kingship. The motif can be reconstructed on the basis of internal evidence survived in the sources under discussion. Both tales account for similar number of suitors for kingship (three saints in the Irish source vs. three princes in the Russian tale). The metaphorical conquest of the land is represented by (a) throwing/shooting of a weapon (the magic spear-staff of the saint vs. the arrow of the prince) and (b) spreading of a cloth (saint’s cloak vs. frog skin cf. weaving of a carpet symbolically representing the whole kingdom). (Needless to say, topics (a) and (b) above correlate as vertical vs. horizontal types of domestication of space.) The conquest of the land is finalised by overcoming the resistance of the land’s malevolent aspect. In the case of the Tory legend, the aspect is represented by its degraded prototype – a malicious dog that the king sets upon the saint. In the case of the Russian fairy-tale, the aspect is developed into","PeriodicalId":370965,"journal":{"name":"Studia Celto-Slavica","volume":"448 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127609243","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":"Russian and Western Celticists on Similarities between Early Irish and Early Indian Traditions","authors":"M. Fomin","doi":"10.54586/ulyq2921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54586/ulyq2921","url":null,"abstract":"The present contribution will not deal specifically with comparative aspects of Celto-Slavic but rather with the contribution of Celtic scholars, in particular Russian Celtic scholars, to the study of similarities between early Irish and early Indian traditions of kingship.","PeriodicalId":370965,"journal":{"name":"Studia Celto-Slavica","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129187392","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":"On Comparing Slavic and Celtic Theonyms, with Regard to Their Indo-European Background","authors":"S. Zimmer","doi":"10.54586/omve4451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54586/omve4451","url":null,"abstract":"There is only one Slavic theonym which compares semantically with Celtic. Formal comparison is of course always possible in the framework of Comparative IE grammar, especially in word-formation. There is hardly anything like a privileged Slavo-Celtic relation. Irano-Slavica would be a more promising field for comparison indeed.","PeriodicalId":370965,"journal":{"name":"Studia Celto-Slavica","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123421745","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":"A Celtic Gloss in the Hesychian Lexicon","authors":"K. Witczak","doi":"10.54586/pjbw3825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54586/pjbw3825","url":null,"abstract":"The well known lexicon, prepared by Hesychios of Alexandria (5th or 6th cent. AD), contains a number of glosses which are defined as “Celtic” or as “Galatian”. However, most Hesychian glosses appears with no ethnic designation. Some of them can be convincingly treated as Celtic (especially Galatian) terms. There is also the case which is connected with the following gloss: mátan · hē lynx. énioi dè matakòs è matakón “mátan [means] she-lynx. Some [call lynx] matakós or matakón.” These three names for ‘lynx’ seem to possess exact and convincing equivalents only in the Celtic Insular languages. Celtic *mat- ‘a kind of predator’ (1. lynx, 2. bear, 3. fox), *matākós m. ‘id.’ (1. lynx, 3. fox). 1. Continental Celtic mátan gl. hē lynx; also  matakòs and matakón ‘lynx’ (Hesych.); 2. OIr. math (gen. sg. matho) m. (u-stem) ‘bear’ (< Celt. Goid. *matu-); see Gaul., OBritt. PN Matugenus m. Hisp.-Celt. PN Matugenus, Matucenus, OIr. PN Mathgen, OW. PN Madyein (< Celt. *Matu-genos, liter. ‘son of bear’); Scottish Gaelic mathan m. ‘bear’ (< Celt. Goid. *mat-agnos), also Sc. Gael. mathghamhuin ‘bear’, Early Ir. mathgaman ‘id.’; 3. OW. madawg, W. madog m. ‘fox’ (< Celt. Britt. *matākos); see Gaulish PN Matacus, Old Brittonic PN Matucus, Old Welsh PN Matauc, Matoc, Breton PN Matoc, later Matec; W. madyn m. ‘fox’, maden f. ‘a small she-fox, vixen’ (< Celt. Britt. *matinos m. vs. *matinā f.); see also Gaul. PN Matinus m., Matina f. I discuss the Celtic origin of the Hesychian gloss, the etymology of the Celtic words, as well as the problems of the original meaning.","PeriodicalId":370965,"journal":{"name":"Studia Celto-Slavica","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123733611","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 Figurative Dimension of Welsh Nicknaming in the Light of the Great Chain of Being","authors":"Katarzyna Jędrzejewska-Pyszczak","doi":"10.54586/ovbl5249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54586/ovbl5249","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper is concerned with tracing instances of figurative language among Welsh nickname formations. Selected nicknames are examined from the point of view of 1) the underlying metaphorical mapping in line with the class-inclusion approach (Glucksberg and Keysar 1990) according to which the source of a metaphor functions as a prototypical member of an ad hoc created superordinate category that also encompasses the target,  and 2) a given metonymic model. Subsequently, an attempt is made at a classification of the investigated Welsh nicknaming patterns in relation to the concept of the Great Chain of Being, i.e. a universal hierarchy of life forms. Out of the three main principles of the Great Chain of Being, special reference will be made to the principle of linear gradation, which assumes a scale from the lowest type(s) of existence to the highest form.","PeriodicalId":370965,"journal":{"name":"Studia Celto-Slavica","volume":"349 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122754751","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":"Irish Historical Thinking in the Saga Cath Maige Tuired Conga","authors":"Vera Potopaeva","doi":"10.54586/xssw6829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54586/xssw6829","url":null,"abstract":"The Middle Irish text Cath Mag Tuired Conga belongs to the pseudo-historical (or synthetic) tradition of the Irish narrative. It tells as about the Fir Bolg arrival and about their battle with the Túatha Dé Danann. This saga includes not only the typical elements of the insular literature, but also borrows some subjects and plots from the Bible and from the patristic works. The author mentions many dates and places, and we can reconstruct his idea of history and geography, the chronotope, in which he existed. On the basis of this saga we can draw a conclusion about a typical historical line of thinking of the Middle Irish author.","PeriodicalId":370965,"journal":{"name":"Studia Celto-Slavica","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123030714","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":"Syllabic Consonants in Slavic and Celtic Languages: The Mechanism of Element Extension","authors":"A. Bloch-Rozmej","doi":"10.54586/wwjf8701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54586/wwjf8701","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the problem of the syllabic consonants in the selected Slavic and Celtic languages. We shall consider this issue through the optic of Government Phonology (henceforth GP), as defined e.g. in Harris 1994, Cyran 2003 and Gussmann 2007. Within the framework of GP, the phonological structure of morphemes is constructed in terms of the licensing and governing relations between adjacent skeletal positions – the timing slots. The prosodic positions are then projected onto the syllabic constituents of nuclei (the heads of rhymes) and onsets. In such configurations, onsets are always dependent on their nuclear licensers. A specific proposal advocated in this presentation is that onset-nucleus domains are not only licensing domains but they also constitute the so-called extension domains. It will be further maintained that the phenomenon of the syllabic consonants can be analyzed in terms of segment extension occurring within such onset-nucleus extension domains. It will be demonstrated that this solution effectively accounts for the relevant linguistic facts attested to in Polish, Czech, Slovak or Serbo-Croatian. In our analysis, the distinction between the syllabic and trapped consonants will be adopted which, as will be proposed, derives from different lexical structures of either type. Apart from the available dictionary entries, we shall rely on the data provided by Scheer (2003), Dalewska-Greń (2002) and Rubach (1997). The evidence concerning the behavior of the syllabic consonants in the Slavic languages will also be compared to the Irish situation. It will be proposed that the observable differences are contingent on both structural representations and different parameter settings in the languages under discussion.","PeriodicalId":370965,"journal":{"name":"Studia Celto-Slavica","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128614690","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":"Snapshot or Signpost? The Role of English in Tadhg Ó Neachtain’s Early Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts","authors":"L. Mac Mathúna","doi":"10.54586/flav7666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54586/flav7666","url":null,"abstract":"Seán Ó Neachtain (c. 1640–1729) and his son Tadhg (c. 1671–c. 1752) were at the centre of an extensive circle of Gaelic scholars in the city of Dublin in the early part of the eighteenth century. Seán Ó Neachtain composed a broad range of creative literature. Although primarily written in Irish, his works include examples of Irish/English code-mixing as well as pieces composed entirely in English. His son, Tadhg Ó Neachtain, is credited with having written over 25 surviving manuscripts. He makes considerable use of English sources and of English itself in a number of these manuscripts, which are either pedagogical in nature, devoted to geography and history, or are characterised by frequent commonplace entries referring to contemporary events. This paper examines the interaction of the two languages in these manuscripts, exploring (1) the use of English language sources (textbooks and Dublin newspapers), (2) the content of the English portions of the manuscripts in question, and (3) the relationship of the English material to the Irish in the immediate compositional context. The paper seeks to assess whether the permeating bilingualism of these manuscripts is merely indicative of the contemporary socio-linguistic milieu in which the Ó Neachtains functioned, or can be regarded as harbinger of the subsequent community language change from Irish to English.","PeriodicalId":370965,"journal":{"name":"Studia Celto-Slavica","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121416953","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":"A Prague Poem on Purgation?: Five Languages in a Seventeenth Century Irish Manuscript","authors":"Ken Ó Donnchú","doi":"10.54586/mwky8087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54586/mwky8087","url":null,"abstract":"The history of the Irish Franciscans in continental Europe has been the subject of much scholarly investigation, which has focused mainly on the renowned Louvain college. Although the Irish Franciscans in Prague were less prolific than their Louvain compatriots, the Prague house, active for over 150 years, nevertheless produced many works, ranging from original theological treatises to copies of grammatical and historical texts, both in Latin and in the vernacular. This paper will examine a text from UCD Franciscan Collection MS A 32 f.5, a single paper folio which preserves the only known example of the Czech language in a Gaelic manuscript. The content of that folio sheds light on the relationships between the continental houses, and highlights the more quotidian and less-vaunted aspects of the lives and work of these exiled Irish men of God.\u0000 The poem in question, entitled ‘Freagra ar et cætera Philip’ (An Answer to Philip’s Et Cætera, FCP hereafter), centres on the ‘evacuation’ difficulties of one Philip Ó Conaill, the hardship this has caused those in his company, and the advice given to Philip on how to cure his ailment. In literary terms, FCP exemplifies the strong interest of the Irish literati at all stages in so-called Rabelaisian humour, and burlesque literature. While the poem itself is unlikely to be added to the canon of Irish literature, nevertheless a number of aspects of its contents are intriguing, and invite investigation and restrained speculation as to the context of its production.","PeriodicalId":370965,"journal":{"name":"Studia Celto-Slavica","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116311208","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}