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dc.contributor.author	O Cathasaigh, Tomas
dc.date.accessioned	2010-06-30T13:59:16Z
dc.date.issued	1986
dc.identifier.citation	Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás. 1986. The sister's son in early Irish literature. Peritia 5: 128-160.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0332-1592	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4266485
dc.description.abstract	This study of the sister's son in some of the major early Irish narratives, in religious verse, and in the laws(and including linguistic analysis of kindred terminology) shows that the relationship between sister's son and maternal kindred is an important theme in the literature; the relationship can be amicable (and accordingly be greatly beneficial to society) or hostile (and greatly destructive of social order); the sister's son must be integrated into society by means of a solemn contract; and the social good will be served only if the obligations imposed by that contract are duly discharged on both sides. The social role of the sister's son can be summed up in the word goire, and this is reflected in gormac, which came to replace the inherited term nia as the designation of 'sister's son'.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Celtic Languages and Literatures	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Medieval Academy of Ireland	en_US
dc.relation.isversionof	http://www.ucc.ie/peritia/index.html	en_US
dash.license	META_ONLY
dc.subject	early medieval literature	en_US
dc.subject	mythology	en_US
dc.subject	saga	en_US
dc.subject	Ulster cycle	en_US
dc.subject	religious verse	en_US
dc.subject	medieval society	en_US
dc.subject	social structure	en_US
dc.subject	kindred	en_US
dc.subject	sister's son	en_US
dc.subject	avunculate	en_US
dc.subject	goire	en_US
dc.subject	gormac	en_US
dc.subject	nia	en_US
dc.subject	Táin Bó Cúailnge	en_US
dc.title	The Sister's Son in Early Irish Literature	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article	en_US
dc.description.version	Version of Record	en_US
dc.relation.journal	Peritia	en_US
dash.depositing.author	O Cathasaigh, Tomas
dash.embargo.until	10000-01-01

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