The Carmina Gadelica is a collection of prayers, hymns, charms, incantations, blessings, runes, and other literary-folkloric poems and songs collected and translated by amateur folklorist Alexander Carmichael (1832–1912) in the Gaelic-speaking regions of Scotland between 1855 and 1910. The work was originally published in six volumes. Carmichael edited the first two volumes, published in 1900; volumes III and IV were edited by James Carmichael Watson (Alexander Carmichael's grandson) and published in 1940 and 1941; two final volumes, edited by Angus Matheson, were published in 1954 and 1971. A one-volume edition was published in 1992. Initially highly praised as a monumental achievement in Scottish folklore, the Carmina Gadelica subsequently has been criticized for Carmichael's excessive editing of, and possibly fabricating, the source material.

External links

• Carmina Gadelica vol. I
• Carmina Gadelica volume I: full text at the Internet Sacred Text Archive
• Carmina Gadelica volume II: full text at the Internet Sacred Text Archive

Source

• Carmichael, Alexander (1992). Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations Collected in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland in the Last Century. Edinburgh: Lindisfarne Press. ISBN 0-940262-50-9

Poetry anthologies