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NIGHT SHIELDING 367
BLESSING OF A HOUSE
over a new family in a new house.
Be Christ's cross on your new dwelling,
Be Christ's cross on your new hearth,
Be Christ's cross on your new abode.
Upon your new fire blazing.
Be Christ's cross on your topmost grain,
Be Christ's cross on your fi-uitful wives,
Be Christ's cross on your virile sons.
Upon your conceptive daughters.
Be Christ's cross on your serving-maid.
Be Christ's cross on your knee of promise, [coming
Be Christ's cross on your . . . generation
Upon your prospering cattle. [mountain-
dwelling
Be Christ's cross on your means and portion,
Be Christ's cross on your kin and people.
Be Christ's cross on you each light and darkness.
Each day and each night of your lives.
Each day and each night of your lives.

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Carmina gadelica
Description"Hymns and incantations with illustrative notes on words, rites, and customs, dying and obsolete orally collected in the Highlands and islands of Scotland and translated into English by Alexander Carmichael". Volume 3 only. (Volumes 3-4, translated and edited by James Carmichael Watson from the author’s unfinished manuscripts, published 1940-41.)
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Ossian Collection
DescriptionSelected books from the Ossian Collection of 327 volumes, originally assembled by J. Norman Methven of Perth. Different editions and translations of James MacPherson's epic poem 'Ossian', some with a map of the 'Kingdom of Connor'. Also secondary material relating to Ossianic poetry and the Ossian controversy.
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.