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The learned writer then sums up — "Here
■we have a certain number of inscriptions which
appear to be more or less Pictish, so let the
advocates of the Celtic theories come forward
and explain these inscriptions as Celtic. Let
those who cherish the Welsh or Brythonic
theory — for they seem to be just now fore-
most — take the carefully written and punctu-
ated Og:am from Lunasting : — x Ttocuhetts :
ahehhttmnnn : hccvvevv : Nehhtonn, and let
them explain it as Welsh, and I shall have to
confess that I have never rightly understood
a sina-le word of my mother tongue. If they
cannot explain it so, let them explain it a3
any kind of Aryan. Till then I shall treat it
as unintelligible to me as a Celt, and as being,
ao far as I can judge, not Aryan." — (Rhys iu
Proceedings of the Saciety of Antiquaries of
Scotland, May 9th, 1892).

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Leabhar Nan Gleann
Description= The Book of the Glens; with Zimmer on Pictish matriarchy.
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Hew Morrison Collection
DescriptionA selection of items from a collection of 320 volumes and 30 pamphlets of literary and religious works in Scottish Gaelic. From the personal library of Hew Morrison, the first City Librarian of Edinburgh.
Early Gaelic Book Collections
DescriptionSelected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history.