3 résultats pour "gaélica"

• Literatura gaélica - idiomas.

  6 LITERATURA GAÉLICA ESCOCESA DEL SIGLO XVIII En el siglo XVIII el contacto con otras literaturas y el desarrollo de la imprenta proporcionó nuevo vigor a la escritura gaélica escocesa. Probablemente el poeta mássignificativo del siglo fuera Alexander MacDonald. Su obra maestra, Los Birlinn de Clanranald (posterior a 1751), es una descripción de un viaje en barco desde las Hébridas a Irlanda. También escribió poemas de amor y amargas sátiras. Los poemas de Duncan Macintyre, publicados en 1768...

• Ireland - country.

  F Plants and Animals Ireland’s animal life does not differ markedly from that of England or France. Over many centuries of human settlement almost all of Ireland’s natural woodlands werecleared, and indigenous animals such as bear, wolf, wildcat, beaver, wild cattle, and the giant Irish deer (a type of fallow deer) gradually disappeared. However, thehardy and versatile Connemara pony, Ireland’s only native pony breed, has been used by Irish farmers since prehistoric times. The great auk, or gar...

• From Bulfinch's Mythology: Druids - anthology.

  Besides these two great annual festivals, the Druids were in the habit of observing the full moon, and especially the sixth day of the moon. On the latter they soughtthe Mistletoe, which grew on their favourite oaks, and to which, as well as to the oak itself, they ascribed a peculiar virtue and sacredness. The discovery of it was anoccasion of rejoicing and solemn worship. 'They call it,' says [1st-century Roman encyclopedist] Pliny [the Elder], 'by a word in their language, which means 'heal-a...