Description Words have always held great power in the Gaelic traditions of the Scottish Highlands: bardic poems bought immortality for their subjects; satires threatened to ruin reputations and cause physical injury; clan sagas recounted family origins and struggles for power; incantations invoked blessings and curses.
Even in the present, Gaels strive to counteract centuries of misrepresentation of the Highlands as a backwater of barbarism without a valid story of its own to tel.
| Highlands | Bardic poems bought immortality for their subjects |
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Origin Warriors of the word: the world of the scottish highlanders, paperback/michael newton
