Kenneth H. Jackson

Bhí Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson ar na taighdeoirí ab fhearr a d’oibir ar na teangthacha Ceilteacha ina am. Rugadh i gCroydon Shasana sa bhliain 1909 é.

Rinne sé a chuid staidéir faoi stiúrthóireacht Nora Kershaw Chadwick.

Bhí na sé theangaidh Cheilteacha ar a thoil aige: Briotáinis, Coirnis, Gaeilg na hAlbana, Breatnais, Gaeilg agus Manainnis.

Bhí sé ina mhúinteoir Cheiltise in Harvard i 1939 agus ansin in ollscoil Dhún Éideann i 1949 (áit a raibh sé ina chathaoirleach ar an litríocht Cheilteach). 

Ba bhall do chuid mhaith institiúidí móra sa Bhreatain Mhóir agus in Éirinn é. 

Scríobh sé cuid mhaith leabharthach tábhachtach, ina measc leabhar ollmhór fá dtaobh do d’fhóineolaíocht stairiúil na Briotáinise i 1967. 

Fuair sé bás i Mí na bhFaoilleach sa bhliain 1991.

Saothair 
 Language and history in Early Britain: A chronological survey of the Brittonic languages, first to twelfth century A.D., University of Edinburgh Press, Dún Éideann, 1953,
 Contributions to the study of Manx phonology, University of Edinburgh Linguistic Survey of Scotland Series, 1955
 « The Arthur of History », Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959, ISBN 0-19-811588-1.
 « Arthur in Early Welsh Verse », Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959
 « The international popular tale and early Welsh tradition », The Gregynog Lectures, 1961, 1961, Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
 The oldest Irish tradition: A window on the Iron Age, Cambridge: University Press, 1964, réédité en 1999.
 A Historical phonology of Breton, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, décembre 1967, ISBN 978-0-901282-53-8
 A Celtic Miscellany, Translations from the Celtic Literatures
 The Gododdin: The Oldest Scottish poem, Edinburgh:University Press, 1969
 A Celtic Miscellany : Translations from the Celtic Literature, Penguin Paperback, 1972 ISBN 0-14-044247-2.

Féach freisin 
 Ceiltigh
 Teangacha Ceilteacha

Tagairtí 

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