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Kim McCone's Books

Self published works by the linguist Kim McCone who specialises in Old Irish and Indo-European who also possesses considerable expertise in the classics

  • Books and Papers
    • Pagan Past and Christian Present in Early Irish Literature
    • Towards a Relative Chronology of Ancient and Medieval Celtic Sound Change
    • A first Old Irish grammar and reader, including an introduction to Middle Irish
    • The Origins and Development of the Insular Celtic Verbal Complex
  • Articles
    • THE << CELTS>> : QUESTIONS OF NOMENCLATURE AND IDENTITY
    • The good, the bad and the lovely: the transmission of kingship in Esnada Tige Buchet and The Odyssey, and medieval Irish reflexes of Proto-Indo-European sovereignty myths
    • King’s sons, a hideous hag and a golden stag in Indian epic
    • Warriors’ blazing heads and eyes, Cú Chulainn and other fiery cyclopes, ‘bright’ Balar, and the etymology of Old Irish cáech, ‘one eyed’
    • Cú Chulainn’s first arming and outing (cét-gabál gaiscid): Roman and Greek parallels for his slaying of three brothers (Horatius, the Curiatii and Heracles), “woman trouble” (Horatius and Coriolanus), and immersions (Diomedes and Odysseus)
    • Mocking the afflicted: morals and missing body-parts in Scéla Muicce meic Da Thó and Waltharius
    • Bringing up boys: four Old Irish terms, Cú Chulainn’s two early birth-tales, and Celtic pederasty
    • Power, Gender and Mobility – Preview
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