Celtica 23 (1999): Essays in honour of James Patrick Carney.
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
portr.
Rev. by
Patricia Kelly, in Béaloideas 68 (2000), pp. 234-236.
Pierre-Yves Lambert, in ÉtC 36 (2008), pp. 229-235.
Karl Horst Schmidt, in ZCP 55 (2006), pp. 335-338.
Brings together examples of this theme in Irish, Welsh and Cornish; discusses its origins and later development in Latin; outlines its use in art and in non-celtic European languages. Cf. A. Breeze, 'The Blessed Virgin and the Sunbeam through Glass’, Barcelona English Language and Literature Studies 2 (1991), 53-64.
Derives from *en-n-iyā ‘the interior’ from a possible pre-Celtic adjective *en-no- ‘inner, interior’, from preposition *en ‘in’ + adjectival suffix *-no-.
Provides a transcription of the fragmentary quatrains (i.e. nos 260-303) of the poems of Blathmac, contained in NLI MS G 50, not included in James Carney’s edition (The poems of Blathmac, Dublin 1964 [BILL 5593]).
Includes an appendix describing the structure in terms of hands of Egerton 88, RIA 23 Q 6, and Copenhagen 261 B, all of which belonged originally to the same MS; appendix also includes 7 plates from Egerton 88.
Rev. by
Patricia Kelly, in Béaloideas 68 (2000), pp. 234-236.
Pierre-Yves Lambert, in ÉtC 36 (2008), pp. 229-235.
Karl Horst Schmidt, in ZCP 55 (2006), pp. 335-338.