Scottish Gaelic place-names : the collected works of Charles M. Robertson 1864-1927
King, Jacob2019
Books, Manuscripts
Rev. Charles M. Robertson was one of the greatest Scottish Gaelic scholars of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A native of Strathtay in Perthshire, his work as a minister toook him round the Highlands to places such as Arran, Argyle, Lochaber, Inverness-shire, Nairnshire, Sutherland, Wester Ross, Skye, Jura, Islay, as well as his native Perthshire. For over thirty years Robertson rigorously gathered detailed information on place-names, dialect and folklore from local Gaelic speakers. He did this at a time when Gaelic was still the dominant language in these places, and much of the information that he gathered, especially place-names, would have otherwise been completely lost to us were it not for his surviving notebooks. This book brings together for the first time Robertson's published and unpublished material on place-names. The book includes transcriptions of his unpublished place-name notebooks, containing over eight thousand Gaelic name forms, with associated folklore and linguistic notes made by him. There is also a full introduction which puts his work in context, as well as an exhaustive index.
Main title:
Scottish Gaelic place-names : the collected works of Charles M. Robertson 1864-1927 / edited by Dr Jacob King.
Author:
King, Jacob, editor
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
Isle of Skye : Clò Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba, 2019.
Collation:
xxxvi, 554 pages ; 23 cm.
Notes:
In English and Gaelic.
ISBN:
9781721806874
Dewey class:
891.63
Local class:
891.63
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2538468