Introduction1. Women and Love in Early Irish PoetryJohn Montague2. Woman and Sexuality in the Old Irish SagasMaureen Fries3. The Female Character: Early and Middle Scots Literature as a Source for the History of Women in Late Medieval ScotlandElizabeth Ewan4. Guto’r Glyn at Valle cruces: Poet and Patron in Fifteenth-Century WalesRichard M. Loomis5. Galatians, Gaels, Scots: Places and violence: Prolegomena to the Study of Galatian-Celtic Name FormationsA. D. Macro 6. A Great Divide: Historical Principles in Early and Middle Scots LiteratureLister M. Matheson7. Destruction of a Celtic People: The Viking Impact Upon PictlandEdward J. Cowan8. "To Schwar Thare Reif, Thift, Murthour, and Mischief": The Semiosis of violence in Davd Lindsay’s VerseSid Sondgard