Fergus and the Cosmogonic Sword

Sayers, William

doi:10.1086/463020

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“…The allusion to an elusive, wavering image was in both cases a reference to the magical mists that accompany the appearance of supernaturals in many Celtic epics or folktales (Puhvel 1978;Sayers 1985). Reconstituted by the still best-selling fantasy novel The Mists of Avalon (Bradley 1983), the Celtic mist also has become a hackneyed component of the New Age idiom, used to flog everything from books on Wiccan philosophy to Irish-inspired elevator music (Possamai 2002).…”

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Unity and Diversity in the European Iron Age: Out of the Mists, Some Clarity?

Thurston

2009

J Archaeol Res

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While some researchers continue to focus fruitfully on traditional issues, in recent years new perspectives, some strongly revisionist, have developed within European Iron Age archaeology, moving it from a long-static state into a rapidly changing milieu. Studies of colonialism, imperialism, and interaction have undergone sequential shifts into new territory, while topics related to sacred activity, political apparatuses, and the ruler-subject relationship have undergone substantial reworking. Perspectives absent from earlier literature have emerged: gender, age, ethnicity, and identity, and interpretations employing theories of practice, agency, landscape, and embodiment have emerged, mirroring broader disciplinary shifts. An overarching trend sees Iron Age Europe as a series of interactive societies with both broad similarities and sharp regional, even local, differences, moving through time and ever-changing relationships, influences, and trajectories. The collision of traditional and revisionist scholarship has produced debate, some heated, but has improved and invigorated the field.

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Unity and Diversity in the European Iron Age: Out of the Mists, Some Clarity?

Thurston

2009

J Archaeol Res

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“…A given adult male would occupy a wide range of legal 'slots' with varying rights and responsibilities, depending on whose fine and which dimensional category of it were under consideration." 27 The centrality of the four-generational agnatic lineage group for medieval Irish and also Welsh society has been argued by T. M. Charles-Edwards and D. A. Binchy, who have both posited a common Celtic origin that may even date to Indo-European times. 28 Fischer failed to substantiate the continued use of the term derbfine into the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, although most authorities on medieval Ireland argue that the old kin-based Gaelic order continued to influence Irish society until Tudor and Stuart policies brought it to an end in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.…”

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A Scotch-Irish Clan in Middle Georgia? The Migration and Development of a McCarty Family across Two Centuries

Knight

2019

Journal of Family History

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This essay argues that characteristics of the Irish and Scottish kin-based clan systems brought to America by settlers from Ireland and Scotland in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries had lasting effects on American kinship systems. Using a case study to focus on a single family, it suggests that elements of kinship systems originating in Ireland and Scotland could be found in a central Georgia community in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This is significant because the location was far removed from areas often identified with Irish, Scottish, and Scotch-Irish settlers, such as the hill country of the lower Appalachian Mountains. It suggests that cultural folkways could persist across many generations of a family, even outside areas where they were heavily concentrated. The latter portion of the essay focuses on the role of one woman, family matriarch Rhoda Johnson, in shaping identity and transmitting culture across generations.

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“…4707 -12; a fuller study of the scene is found inSayers 1985. Pre-Christian Cosmogonic Lore in Medieval Ireland…”

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