Kenneth H. Jackson - Publications

Publications

While at Edinburgh Jackson published articles and books on the ancient Celts, and the Dark Ages and Middle Ages, on all six modern Celtic languages, on folklore, placenames and dialects. A bibliography of his publications appears in Studia Celtica 14/14, pp 5–11 (1979–80). His writings are always insightful and stimulating, often the only sources in English for their subject, and even where the reader may wish to disagree with his conclusions, the weight of his erudition and mastery of the early Celtic material must be taken into account. It is scarcely possible to come across a publication or longer article on Celtic studies that does not refer to Professor Jackson's work. There is also the advantage for those not familiar with the Celtic languages that much of his work is in an English-language medium, although this can make an appreciation of Celtica rather unbalanced, as an understanding of sources in at least Welsh can help develop a larger picture, where different opinions are represented. A selection of his publications is given below:

• 1935. Studies in Early Celtic Nature Poetry, Cambridge: University Press.
• 1935. Early Welsh Gnomic Poems, Cardiff, University of Wales Press.
• 1953. Language and history in early Britain: A chronological survey of the Brittonic languages, first to twelfth century A.D., Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press.
• 1955. The Pictish Language in F T Wainwright (ed) The Problem of the Picts. Edinburgh.
• 1955. Contributions to the study of Manx phonology, University of Edinburgh Linguistic Survey of Scotland Series.
• 1959. "The Arthur of History" Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-811588-1.
• 1959. "Arthur in Early Welsh Verse" Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• 1961. "The international popular tale and early Welsh tradition" The Gregynog Lectures, 1961, Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
• 1964. The oldest Irish tradition: A window on the Iron Age, Cambridge: University Press. Reprinted 1999.
• 1967. A Historical phonology of Breton, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, ISBN 978-0-901282-53-8
• 1969. The Gododdin: The Oldest Scottish poem, Edinburgh:University Press.
• 1972, etc. A Celtic Miscellany : Translations from the Celtic Literature, Penguin Paperback. ISBN 0-14-044247-2. Poetry and prose from six Celtic languages, Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx.
• 1990. Aislinge Meic Con Glinne, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, ISBN 0-901282-94-4