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Gaelic proverbial lore in Embo village
Scottish studies • 18 • Published In 1974 • Pages: 117-126
By: Dorian, Nancy C..
Abstract
Gaelic as a language is rapidly disappearing from the Scottish highlands, and given the relative poverty of the Gaelic folk culture as a whole, Dorian has attempted to capture as much of it as possible in the forms of proverbs. Dorian's focus is the village of Embo, near Dornoch in Sutherland, which has remained in the 20th century as one of the '…relic areas for Gaelic speech in the north-east of Scotland' (p. 117). Dorian worked primarily with the Fraser-Ross household in Embo; a family that has enjoyed the reputation of being an uncommonly rich source of proverbial material. In addition to a discussion of the proverbs themselves, the texts of proverbs are presented in both Gaelic and English.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1995
- Region
- Europe
- Sub Region
- British Isles
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Linguist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; M. Marcus
- Field Date
- 1963-1968
- Coverage Date
- not specified
- Coverage Place
- Embo village, Sutherland, Scotland (p. 117)
- Notes
- [by] Nancy Currier Dorian
- Bibliography: p. 126
- LCSH
- Highlands (Scotland)