Ebook: Transforming Traditions: Studies in Archaeology, Comparative Linguistics and Narrative. Proceedings of the Fifth International Colloquium of "Societas Celto-Slavica" Held at Příbram, 26-29 July 2010

This volume contains thirteen articles, ten of which were presented at the Fifth International Colloquium of 'Societas Celto-Slavica' held at Příbram, 26-29 July 2010. The contributions include papers on a range of subjects relating to Celtic and Slavic early and modern linguistic data, their cultural and narrative traditions. In addition to papers on lexical and grammatical parallels between Celtic and Slavic languages, other subjects covered are mythological aspects of Irish narrative tradition, modern Welsh literature and language, and aspects of Breton grammar. The second part of the volume includes invited papers on Russian and Scottish Gaelic paremiology, early Irish pseudo-history and archaeological evidence relating to Celtic presence on the territory of the present day Ukraine.