Название: Warriors of the Word: The World of the Scottish Highlanders
Автор: Michael Newton
Издательство: Birlinn
ISBN: 1912476592
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 486
Размер: 2,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Words have always held great power in the Gaelic traditions of the Scottish Highlands: bardic poems bought immortality for their subjects; satires threatened to ruin reputations and cause physical injury; clan sagas recounted family origins and struggles for power; incantations invoked blessings and curses. Even in the present, Gaels strive to counteract centuries of misrepresentation of the Highlands as a backwater of barbarism without a valid story of its own to tell.