The earliest vernacular literatures of medieval Western Europe were produced in Britain and Ireland in Old English, Gaelic, and Brittonic languages. Our Anglophone world privileges Old English ...

THIRTY-TWO WORDS FOR FIELD: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape. By Manchán Magan. Ithaka Press. 292 pages. $26. The magical and mythical aspects of Old Irish accord loving treatment in “Thirty-Two ...