Place-names of Scotland

Iain Taylor (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2011
Birlinn Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78027-005-0 (ISBN)

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Scotland is a land of many languages - Gaelic, Norse, Pictish, Brythonic, Anglo Saxon, Modern English and some from before recorded time. Here at last is a simple pocket guide to Scotlands rich tapestry of names from Eass Forss (Waterfall Waterfall!) to Edinburgh (The Fort of Eidyn)

Scotland is a land of many languages - Gaelic, Norse, Pictish, Brythonic, Anglo Saxon, Modern English and some from before recorded time. The result for the visitor is a confusing series of overlapping layers of place names, difficult to understand and often more difficult to pronounce. Here at last is a simple pocket guide to Scotlands rich tapestry of names. From Eass Forss (Waterfall Waterfall!) to Edinburgh (The Fort of Eidyn) for the first time in one place we have a simple reckoner to where means what with derivations. Packed with information this is an essential short guide by an expert to the names that shaped and still shape our history.

Iain Taylor is (with Boyd Robertson) co author of Teach Yourself Gaelic and currently teaches in Ireland.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.7.2011
Zusatzinfo	Maps
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	112 x 176 mm
Gewicht	232 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-78027-005-4 / 1780270054
ISBN-13	978-1-78027-005-0 / 9781780270050
Zustand	Neuware