Celtic Invocations: Selections from Volume I of Carmina Gadelica

by Alexander Carmichael

English (translation)

127 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1977

About the author

Alexander Archibald Carmichael (Gaelic: Alasdair Gilleasbaig MacGilleMhìcheil) was a Scottish exciseman, folklorist, antiquarian, and author. Between 1860 and his death Carmichael collected a vast amount of folklore, local traditions, natural history observations, antiquarian data, and material objects from people throughout the Scottish Highlands, particularly in the southern Outer Hebrides where he lived, worked, and brought up his family between 1864 and 1882. Alexander Carmichael is best known today for Carmina Gadelica, an influential compendium of Highland lore and literature published in six volumes between 1900 and 1971.

Reviews

[Timothy Nichols · Rating 5 out of 5]

This splendid little volume is a window into the lives and practice of deeply devout Christians of a very different time and place. Must reading for recovering modernists.