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The land doesn't hold its shape that way. Two breaths, then: in through the nose, a second short sip stacked on top, out long and ragged. Three times.
That second sip is the part that actually reaches the nerve.

Cùm do chasan air an talamh — keep your feet on the ground.

What am I still asking permission to call mine? Ask me...
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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The land doesn't hold its shape that way. Two breaths, then: in through the nose, a second short sip stacked on top, out long and ragged. Three times.
That second sip is the part that actually reaches the nerve.

Cùm do chasan air an talamh — keep your feet on the ground.

What am I still asking permission to call mine? Ask me...
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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Your body has been braced since somebody said the small mean word at a fairground. Bracing isn't weakness — it's a nervous system doing the job it evolved for. The trouble is nobody ever tells the body when the thing is over, so it holds that shape into September, into a jaw that clicks and a shoulder that will not come down.
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon
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Your body has been braced since somebody said the small mean word at a fairground. Bracing isn't weakness — it's a nervous system doing the job it evolved for. The trouble is nobody ever tells the body when the thing is over, so it holds that shape into September, into a jaw that clicks and a shoulder that will not come down.
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon
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And take the warning as seriously as the remedy: same family as aspirin, so if aspirin's off the table for you, so is this. Blood thinners, pregnancy, a child with a fever — no. Ask your pharmacist. She'd rather you asked than didn't.
What do you reach for when the weather gets into your joints?
#Herbalism #Herbs #WillowBark #Apothecary #Foraging #Gàidhlig #Druid #Folklore #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Nature #Cooking
Today's full issue → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/there-is-a-blue-wave-coming-our-salvation-fuck-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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And take the warning as seriously as the remedy: same family as aspirin, so if aspirin's off the table for you, so is this. Blood thinners, pregnancy, a child with a fever — no. Ask your pharmacist. She'd rather you asked than didn't.
What do you reach for when the weather gets into your joints?
#Herbalism #Herbs #WillowBark #Apothecary #Foraging #Gàidhlig #Druid #Folklore #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Nature #Cooking
Today's full issue → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/there-is-a-blue-wave-coming-our-salvation-fuck-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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Seileach. Willow bark, and it is not folklore standing next to medicine — it is where the medicine came from. Salicin in the inner bark, converted by your gut into salicylic acid, which is aspirin's own chemistry with the factory left off
A teaspoon or two of dried cut bark, just-boiled water, lid on, fifteen minutes. Wet fence post with a bitter finish that arrives late #Herbalism #Herbs #WillowBark #Apothecary #Foraging #Gàidhlig #Druid #Folklore #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Nature #Cooking
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Seileach. Willow bark, and it is not folklore standing next to medicine — it is where the medicine came from. Salicin in the inner bark, converted by your gut into salicylic acid, which is aspirin's own chemistry with the factory left off
A teaspoon or two of dried cut bark, just-boiled water, lid on, fifteen minutes. Wet fence post with a bitter finish that arrives late #Herbalism #Herbs #WillowBark #Apothecary #Foraging #Gàidhlig #Druid #Folklore #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Nature #Cooking
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Question for speakers of #Celtic languages :BoostOK: : do you apply initial consonant mutations to non-Celtic names?

(My question is specifically about place names but I thought it'd be useful to know more generally as well)

#Kernewek
#cymraeg
#brezhoneg
#gaelg
#gaidhlig
#gaeilge

Question for speakers of #Celtic languages :BoostOK: : do you apply initial consonant mutations to non-Celtic names?

(My question is specifically about place names but I thought it'd be useful to know more generally as well)

#Kernewek
#cymraeg
#brezhoneg
#gaelg
#gaidhlig
#gaeilge

Question for speakers of #Celtic languages :BoostOK: : do you apply initial consonant mutations to non-Celtic names?

(My question is specifically about place names but I thought it'd be useful to know more generally as well)

#Kernewek
#cymraeg
#brezhoneg
#gaelg
#gaidhlig
#gaeilge

Question for speakers of #Celtic languages :BoostOK: : do you apply initial consonant mutations to non-Celtic names?

(My question is specifically about place names but I thought it'd be useful to know more generally as well)

#Kernewek
#cymraeg
#brezhoneg
#gaelg
#gaidhlig
#gaeilge

Question for speakers of #Celtic languages :BoostOK: : do you apply initial consonant mutations to non-Celtic names?

(My question is specifically about place names but I thought it'd be useful to know more generally as well)

#Kernewek
#cymraeg
#brezhoneg
#gaelg
#gaidhlig
#gaeilge

An Lanntair: Join children’s author Louisa MacDougall to celebrate her new book The Ugly Puffling and other stories. There will be story time, crafts and wildlife-themed games for primary-aged children. Pop in at any time between 12.30 and 2.30pm
The post https://lanntair.com/events/event/the-ugly-puffling-and-other-stories-book-launch/ appeared first on https://lanntair.com.

Source: https://lanntair.com/events/event/the-ugly-puffling-and-other-stories-book-launch/

#Gaelic #Gàidhlig

An Lanntair: In a special edition of our monthly social gathering for all creative islanders, we’re setting up a big screen to share two films by island artists, Jill Smith and the late Ron Coleman.
This is a limited capacity event so book early!
An Avebury Journey by Jill Smith
A pioneering performance artist, Jill Smith’s work was recently recognised by the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, who commissioned her for a year-long project, Zodiac Journey (in collaboration with photographer Mhairi Law) for the gallery’s 50th anniversary. An Avebury Journey, filmed on Super 8 in the early 1980s, marked the beginning of her transition from Jill Bruce, creative partner and wife of artist Bruce Lacey, to creating work on her own as Jill Smith. Unfinished at the time, the silent footage has now been edited by Izzy McEvoy and Jill Smith, and will be screened in public for the first time tonight, accompanied by an improvised live score by Andrew Eaton Lewis and Ralph Tonge.
Caught in this Moment of Time
Adapted from Ron Coleman’s play which toured Scotland, this short film directed by Ian Bustard is Ron’s final piece of work, and part of his remarkable legacy. Ron was a pioneering mental health and dementia activist who later became a playwright and poet. Caught in this Moment of Time dramatises his experiences as a writer with dementia, and his relationship with his AI home help, Alexa. In his final performance, Ron plays…

Source: https://lanntair.com/events/event/artist-gathering-film-night/

#Gàidhlig #Gaelic

Ossian’s Last Stand?
27 May, online. Tickets from £3.55

For over a century after the publication of James Macpherson’s Ossianic epics, controversy raged over their authenticity. In this talk, Prof Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart will look at how the literary battle lines were drawn on both sides, & how the controversy was fought out, in books, magazines, letters, & reports.

@litstudies

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ossians-last-stand-domhnall-uilleam-stiubhart-zoom-tickets-1981484954840

#Scottish #literature #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #Ossian #romanticism #18thcentury #19thcentury

For a brilliant introduction to Macpherson and the “Ossian” poems, we suggest our International Companion, ed. Dafydd Moore – available in print or online via Project MUSE

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Cover 🖼️: Karoli, The woes of Ossian

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/companions/ic4/

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #romanticism #fantasy #Ossian #JamesMacpherson #Gaelic #Gaidhlig

Ossian, the European National Epic
Gauti Kristmannsson

“The number of translations & imitations […] underlines the huge creative impulse of the [Ossian] poems, which can be seen as a major paradigm shift in the outlook of what is called high culture literature.”

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https://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/models-and-stereotypes/anglophilia/gauti-kristmannsson-ossian-the-european-national-epic-1760-1810

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #romanticism #fantasy #Ossian #JamesMacpherson #Gaelic #Gaidhlig

“He’s usually scorned by English-language readers as a charlatan. But he knew Gaelic, he travelled in the Highlands & he talked to Gaelic speakers. […] All works of art are made by artifice.”

Prof Alan Riach on James Macpherson’s “Ossian”

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https://www.thenational.scot/news/18453868.unlocking-james-macphersons-tales-ossian/

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #romanticism #fantasy #Ossian #JamesMacpherson #Gaelic #Gaidhlig

Prof Derick Thomson conducted extensive research into the Gaelic sources of Macpherson’s poetry. This dimension is still often overlooked by scholars & many seem to be entirely unaware of it. Dr Petra Johana Poncarová explores Thomson’s work in this field

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https://anglica-journal.com/article/144001/en

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #romanticism #fantasy #Ossian #JamesMacpherson #Gaelic #Gaidhlig

Another likely reason why he was (& still is) sneered at was his popularity & success… Undoubtedly he padded his texts & added his own inventions—as writers do. Real or fake, whole swathes of the modern literary world still lie in his shadow

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🖼️: Runciman, The Death of Oscar

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #romanticism #fantasy #Ossian #JamesMacpherson #Gaelic #Gaidhlig

Macpherson did not find his texts in “ancient manuscripts” – though there are some, e.g. The Red Book of Clanranald & the Book of the Dean of Lismore. But 18th-century attitudes dismissed the oral tradition which formed the bedrock of the poems

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🖼️: Scheffer, La Mort de Malvina

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #romanticism #fantasy #Ossian #JamesMacpherson #Gaelic #Gaidhlig

Today, Macpherson is often called a “faker” & “forger”. But much of the hostility towards him is because, shortly after the Jacobite rebellions, he staked a claim for the existence of a Gaelic high culture

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🖼️: Girodet, Ossian Receiving the Ghosts of Fallen French Heroes

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #romanticism #fantasy #Ossian #JamesMacpherson #Gaelic #Gaidhlig

@litstudies

Ossian fans included Goethe, Diderot, Jefferson, Bonaparte, Mendelssohn… Ossian-inspired art was created across Europe. Children were given Ossianic names such as Oscar & Fiona (will children still get named “Daenerys” in 250 years?)

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🖼️: Abildgaard, Ossian Singing

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #romanticism #fantasy #Ossian #JamesMacpherson #Gaelic #Gaidhlig

James Macpherson (1736–1796), of “Ossian” fame, was born #OTD, 27 Oct. The “Ossian” poems were the literary sensation of the 18th century; they inspired the Brothers Grimm to collect German folktales, & Elias Lönnrot to compile Finnish poems into the Kalevala. They are the founding texts of European Romanticism & of modern fantasy literature

A 🎂🧵

@litstudies
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🖼️: Ingres, Le Songe d’Ossian

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #romanticism #fantasy #Ossian #JamesMacpherson #Gaelic #Gaidhlig

Happy Glasgow Fair Monday!

“…on one occasion the Highland Queen was berthed by the master and a boy, the rest of the crew being quite incapable…”

Steamships, “steaming”, drunkenness & “smùid” – Donald Meek on going doon the watter, & early Scottish booze-cruising

https://meekwrite.blogspot.com/2013/04/maritime-and-linguistic-studies.html

#Scottish #Scotland #Scots #Scotslanguage #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #steaming #GlasgowFair #FairMonday #culturalstudies #19thcentury #20thcentury #alcohol #steamboat

Ossian: The world’s greatest literary hoax?
10 April, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh – free

Poet & playwright Martin O’Connor & historian Dr Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart delve into literary hoaxes, tartan-trimmed myths, & the interplay between authenticity & Scottish identity

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ossian-the-worlds-greatest-literary-hoax-tickets-1257980175569

#Scottish #literature #culture #identity #Macpherson #Ossian #18thcentury #poetry #Gaelic #Gaidhlig

Goethe, Jefferson, Diderot, Mendelssohn were all Ossian fans… Grimms’ fairy tales, the Kalevala, European Romanticism, all stem from Macpherson’s work. Much of modern fantasy literature has roots in “Ossian”.

More here! 👇 From all good bookshops, & online via Project MUSE

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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/companions/ic4/

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #Ossian #Oscar #Fantasy

“Oscar” became a popular name, especially in Scandinavia, & eventually became the name of the Academy Award too.

It wasn’t the only popular name to come from Macpherson’s works: “Fiona” is another. People went nuts for Ossian. (Will anyone be naming their daughters “Daenerys” in 250 years?)

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🖼️Title page, THE POEMS OF OSSIAN (1809 edn)

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #Ossian #Oscar #AcademyAwards #Oscars

In Macpherson’s “Ossian” – derived in part from songs & legends preserved in Gaelic oral tradition – Oscar was the son of Ossian, & grandson of Fingal. Napoleon was a HUGE Ossian fan, & gave the name to his godson, who became Oscar I of Sweden 🇸🇪

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🖼️ Crown Prince Oscar of Sweden, 1799–1859

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #Ossian #Oscar #Napoleon #Bonaparte #Sweden #AcademyAwards #Oscars

The Academy Awards are almost upon us, & no-one is sure how the Oscars got their name. Bette Davis’s first husband? Margaret Herrick’s uncle? But “Oscar” – a name from ancient Gaelic legend – owes its modern popularity to James Macpherson’s 18th-century “Ossian” poems

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🖼️ from CHATTERBOX (1890)

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #Ossian #Oscar #AcademyAwards #Oscars

Bubiòn
Sierra Nevada, Granada.

Mu àm na Nollaige. Cha robh guth air sneachd.

#Andalucia #Andaluz #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday #Espana #mountains #Gàidhlig #Gaelic

Power of Scotland

Crann dealain agus Cuimhneachan Nàiseanta Ualais is cuan ceòthaidh.

#FotoMontag #PhotoMonday #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #Scotland #Stirling #MastoDaoine #Braveheart
@photography

Pathway to the otherworld | Slighe gu Tìr nan Òg

Smoo Cave, Durness | Uamh Smùdha, Diùirnis

(photos mine from 2017)

#photography #NaturePhotography #SmooCave #UamhSmùdha #Durness #Diùirnis #Scotland #Alba #otherworld #TirNanOg #cave #Gàidhlig