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Recent Volume

Barra and Skye: Two Hebridean Perspectives

Arne Kruse - Editor
Alasdair Ross - Assistant Editor

The Scottish Society for Northern Studies Edinburgh 2006

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CONTENTS

Foreword: Arne Kruse

Barra

Noel Fojut
Barra – the Physical Background

Ian R. Macneil
Kisimul Castle and the Origin of Hebridean Galley-Castles: Preliminary Thoughts

Sally Foster
Kisimul Castle: Recent Work by Historic Scotland

Calum MacNeil
Barra and Its History: Through the Eyes and Ears of a Modern Seanachaidh

Anke Beate Stahl
On the Verge of Loss: Lesser Known Place-Names of Barra and Vatersay

Skye

Steven A. Birch
A Hunter-Gatherer Landscape: Searching for Evidence of the Earliest Settlers of the Scottish West Coast

G. W. S. Barrow
Skye from Somerled to A.D. 1500

John Norman MacLeod
“Chaidh a’ Chuibhle mun Cuairt” – Skye and the Land Agitation

Aonghas MacNeacail
Some Reflections on the Poetry of Skye

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Previous Titles

  1. Scandinavian Shetland: An Ongoing Tradition? 1978 [ISBN: 0950599409] (out of print)
  2. Caithness: A Cultural Crossroads. 1982 [ISBN: 0950599417] (out of print)
  3. The Scandinavians in Cumbria. 1985 [ISBN: 0950599425] (out of print)
  4. Firthlands of Ross and Sutherland. 1986 [ISBN: 0950599441] £6.50 (OUT OF PRINT)
  5. Galloway: Land and Lordship. 1991 [ISBN: 0950599468]£7.50
  6. Moray: Province and People. 1993 [ISBN: 0950599476] £10.00
  7. Peoples and Settlement in North-West Ross. 1994 [ISBN: 0950599484] £15.00 (OUT OF PRINT)
  8. Shetland’s Northern Links: Language and History. 1996 [ISBN: 0950599492] £12.99
  9. The Province of Strathnaver. 2000 [ISBN: 0953522601] £12.00
  10. Mannin Revisited: twelve essays on Manx culture and environment. 2002 [ISBN: 0953522628] £13.00
  11. The faces of Orkney; Stones, Skalds and saints. 2003 [ISBN 095352261X] £14.00
  12. Barra and Skye: Two Hebridean Perspectives 2006 [ISBN: 0953522636] £12.50
  13. 13. Historic Bute: Land and People 2012 (in preparation)

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