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Excerpts from the complete Carmina Gadelica including prayers for morning protection and for journeys, chants and blessings for work, charms and banishings, prayers and blessings for sleep protection and death, and much more.
This unique collection of living spirituality, rising from the depths of Celtic Christianity, represents a hidden, oral tradition of greatest power and beauty, handed down through countless generations of Hebridean peasants. During his travels, Alexander Carmichael would visit the peasants in their huts, spending hours in front of their peat fires while they "intoned in a low, recitative manner" these poems and prayers. This is the most complete anthology of Celtic oral tradition ever assembled.
These powerful prayers and incantations have been collected from the remote highlands and islands of Gaelic-speaking Scotland. Many of these prayers go back to early Celtic Christianity and even further back to the prehistoric pagan roots of the Irish-Scottish world.
“We cannot bring Thee praise like golden noon-light shining on earth’s green floor; our song is more like silver of the moonlight...” These bits of “silver moonlight” were written by the founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, a ministry which has brought help and the message of the light to those in darkness in South India.
Highlights from Carmina Gadelica, a 19th-century anthology of Scottish poetry, include prayers for Sundays and holidays, blessings for livestock, and chants to cure illness and ensure long life.
An outstanding feature of the Norse-Gaelic seaways is the network of dramatic castles built on or near the shore. They typically dominated main lines of sea communication, and were accessed by?birlinn? or galley. They played a central role in the Hebrides during the Hebrides? heyday, broadly from the Norse period through to the end of the Lordship of the Isles, when the islands were at the crossroads of the Norse-Gaelic world. In recent years considerable inter-disciplinary scholarly effort has gone into reinterpreting their history, dates, functions, and method of construction.0.
Devotees of Irish spirituality -- and those interested in Irish Heritage will cherish this authentic collection of Celtic wisdom and prayer.