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Clò Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba, 2019. Paperback. 554 pages
The Collected Works of Charles M. Robertson, 1864-1927
Edited by Dr Jacob King with a foreword by Dr Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart
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This book brings together for the first time Robertson’s published and unpublished material on place-names. The book includes transcriptions of his unpublished place-name notebooks, containing over eight thousand Gaelic name forms, with associated folklore and linguistic notes made by him.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.
“This book is a must-have for anyone with a serious interest in Scottish place-names.”
Dr Simon Taylor, Reader in Scottish Name Studies, University of Glasgow
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