The Celtic Review, Volume 2Willaim Hodge & Company, 1906 - Celtic languages Includes section "Book reviews". |
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Agus ro Ailill Airne Ankou Annus Armorica Assynt Badon battle Bran Bricne Britannia Bruiden ceann Celtic Celtic Review Celts century chaidh chuir church Cruachan Cumal death dhomh do'n Dubloinges Dubthach duine eile Eilean Eirinn English Eriskay Excidium father Fergus Fergusa fhéin fhuair Fionn mac Fionn mac Cumhail Flidais gach Gael Gaelic Gamhanraidh Gildas gille Highland hill Historia Brittonum Ireland Irish island Isle king king's l'Ankou land language Latin leis Loch Lochlann mach mharbh mór Móra muigh Nennius nighean Norse Norsemen Nuair Oilella Oilill Pictish Picts poems righ rinn river robh Saxons Scotland Smertae song stigh Sutherland sword tanic thainig thoirt thou thug tigh told translation uair uile Wade-Evans warriors Welsh word
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Page 96 - And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.
Page 160 - Help my unbelief. 3 Trusting only in Thy merit, Would I seek Thy face ; Heal my wounded, broken spirit, Save me by Thy grace. 4 Thou the Spring of all my comfort, More than life to me, Whom have I on earth beside Thee ? Whom in heaven but Thee ? FJ CROSBY.
Page 61 - The foregoing list of names and words contains much that is still obscure ; but on the whole it shows that Pictish, so far as regards its vocabulary, is an Indo-European and especially Celtic speech. Its phonetics, so far as we can ascertain them, resemble those of Welsh rather than of Irish.
Page 380 - Christian tradition as it manifested itself in England at the end of the seventh or beginning of the eighth century.
Page 159 - Bridle of untamed colts, Wing of unwandering birds, Sure Helm of babes. Shepherd of royal lambs ! Assemble Thy simple children, To praise holily, To hymn guilelessly With innocent mouths Christ, the guide of children.
Page 51 - Guorthigimus autem tenuit imperium in Brittannia Theodosio et Valentiniano consulibus et in quarto anno regni sui Saxones ad Brittanniam venerunt Felice et Tauro consulibus quadringentesimo anno ab incarnatione domini nostri lesu Christi.
Page 126 - Ambrosias' victory] our fellow citizens were sometimes victorious, sometimes the enemy, in order that the Lord according to His wont might try in this nation, the Israel of to-day whether it loves Him or not. This continued up to the year of the siege of Badon Hill, and of almost the last great slaughter inflicted upon the rascally crew.
Page 129 - Maildufus, by order of a synod of his own nation, wrote a notable book against the error of the Britons, in not celebrating Easter at the...
Page 373 - Vortigern reigned in Britain when Theodosius and Valentinian were consuls, and in the fourth year of his reign the Saxons came to Britain, in the consulship of Felix and Taurus, in the four hundredth year from the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 159 - Jesus, Saviour of the human race, Shepherd, Husbandman, Helm, Bridle, Heavenly Wing of the all-holy flock, Fisher of men who are saved, catching the chaste fishes with sweet life from the hateful wave of a sea of vices, — Guide [us], Shepherd of rational sheep ; guide...