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Elegies and Laments in the Nova Scotia Gaelic Song Tradition: Conservatism and Innovation
Genealogy, 2021 Gaelic-speaking emigrants brought with them a massive body of oral tradition, including a rich and varied corpus of song–poetry, and many of the emigrants were themselves highly skilled song-makers. Elegies were a particularly prominent genre that formed
Robert Douglas Dunbar
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A Female Voice for Action in the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea
Medievalia, 2022 Although most critical attention on laments for the dead in the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea has focused on Pleberio’s long lament for Melibea in Auto XXI, Elicia’s lament for the loss of her lover, Sempronio, his companion, Pármeno, and her ...
Connie L. Scarborough
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Observations on Lutsi oral tradition
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2021 This article examines Lutsi intangible culture in an attempt to clarify the origins of this language island. Historical stories about coming from “Sweden” refer to southern Estonia, but such stories are also widespread in areas that were never under ...
Kristi Salve
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Approaching Religion, 2023 A new dispute about the ownership of Karelian laments emerged in Finland in 2021. The severely endangered Karelian language is the closest relative of Finnish.
Viliina Silvonen, Kati Kallio
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Patriarchs, Pipers and Presidents: Gaelic Immigrant Funerary Customs and Music in North America
Genealogy, 2020 One of the most moving tributes to the dead is the playing of the Highland bagpipes during funeral services, whether in the church or at the graveside.
Barry Shears
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L’Affaire Redureau, le crime de Bas-Briacé (1913) : Un meurtrier de 15 ans au cœur des complaintes
Criminocorpus, 2021 The Redureau Affair depicts a 15-year-old criminal who executed his winegrowing boss in Brittany and 6 other members of the family on the night of 30 September 1913.
Sophie Victorien, Pierre Guillard
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2 Samuel and the Architecture of Poetic Justice
Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2023 The so-called Succession Narrative abounds in references to locales and architectural structures used by royals and their aides to their advantage in matters of private and national interests.
Ekaterina E. Kozlova
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The funeral laments (pohrebné plače) of the Slovak community in Serbia [PDF]
MuzikologijaThis study discusses the funeral laments (pohrebné plače or pohrebné nariekanie in Slovak) of the Slovak ethnic minority in Srem, Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia.
Lomen Kristina
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Radical Teacher, 2021 This poem laments the capitalist values we pass on to our students and argues for an education characterized by connection to and intimate relationship with the deeper truths of the wider ecological world.
Nina Pick
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Genealogy, 2020 Gaelic laments played an integral role in the deathways of the Highland Scots of Nova Scotia. These often passionate outpourings of grief served as lasting obituaries for the dead and epitomized the richness and vigour of the Gaelic language.
Effie Rankin
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