Duanaire na Sracaire: Songbook of the Pillagers

<p><em>Duanaire na Sracaire</em> is the first anthology to bring together Scotland's Gaelic poetry from the millenium c.600-1600 AD, when Scotland shared its rich culture with Ireland. It includes a huge range of diverse poetry: prayers and hymns of Iona, Fenian lays, praise poems and satires, courtly songs and lewd rants, songs of battle and death, incantations and love poems.</p> <p>All poems appear with facing-page translations which capture the spirit and beauty