IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 1514: Early Irish Glossaries: Internal and External Relations
Thursday 12 July 2007, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | AHRC Project: Early Irish Glossaries Project |
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Organiser: | Sharon J. Arbuthnot, University of Cambridge |
Moderator/Chair: | Kaarina Hollo, Aberystwyth University |
Paper 1514-a | Growth from within: The Internal Development of an Early Irish Glossary (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Celtic, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 1514-b | Some Observations on Fragments of Verse Contained in Early Irish Glossaries (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Celtic, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 1514-c | At Arm's Length: The Metaphor of the Body in Early Irish Grammatical Terminology (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Celtic, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Abstract | An important resource for our understanding of the literary and cultural environment of medieval Ireland is a series of inter-related glossaries, conventionally known as Sanas Cormaic ‘Cormac’s Glossary’, O’Mulconry’s Glossary and Dúil Dromma Cetta ‘the Collection of Druim Cett’. These glossaries are the subject of a major AHRC-funded project, based at the University of Cambridge, the aim of which is to produce a multi-volume edition, translation and introduction, together with an enhanced version of the online Early Irish Glossaries Database (www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/irishglossaries). Emanating from that project, this session explores some approaches to the study of early Irish glossaries and to the diverse material contained in them. |