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George Henderson (scholar)

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166:, eventually published in 1911. Henderson contributed some translation work, provided an extensively detailed introduction, and completed the editing of the manuscript for its eventual publication. 484: 464: 489: 469: 194: 47: 459: 449: 181:
Henderson had a large output of published material, although his work was sometimes inconsistent. His principal works include the following:
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and after Campbells' death in 1885 Henderson started working on Campbells unfinished book
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He had in the interim obtained a collection of Gaelic folksongs and tunes from the
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in 1893 earning a doctorate. On his return in 1896, he studied at
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Then in 1906, he was appointed lecturer in Celtic at the
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near Oxford in May 1901, just before his ordination as a
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in 1911. The "Fionn Saga" series he published in the
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Index

Scottish Gaelic
Heughden
Kiltarlity
Inverness-shire
Raining's School
Inverness
Alexander MacBain
lexicographer
University of Edinburgh
Donald MacKinnon
South Uist
Vienna
Jesus College, Oxford
Alexander Carmichael
Iffley
Church of Scotland
Church of Scotland
Eddrachillis
Sutherland
University of Glasgow
Kuno Meyer
Isle of Skye
Frances Tolmie
Folksong Society
Eriskay
Father Allan MacDonald
John Francis Campbell
Rutherglen
Gaelic
John Morison

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