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Its language has been characterised as "exuberant, highly decorated classical common Gaelic", and helped forward the message of
Scottish Protestantism from the English-speaking south-east of the country into Gaelic-speaking Scotland. It was written in the traditional orthography of Irish Classical
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Carsuel married a daughter of
Hamilton of Halcraig, with whom he had at least one son, his heir Gilleasbaig Carsuel; he married a second time, to Mairead Chaimbeul (Margaret Campbell), to whom his daughter Christiana was probably born. He was recorded as very ill in December 1570, and he died
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Carsuel was already a strong Protestant sympathiser by this point; Earl Gilleasbaig Ruadh was likewise a Protestant, possibly having converted as early as 1536 when he visited France. Earl Gilleasbaig placed his eldest son, also called
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It was also ground-breaking in its use of prose for non-heroic material, "the first to use this type of formal
Classical prose". And Carsuel had indeed complained in his work about earlier Gaelic writings, slamming the
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Common Gaelic, and Donald Meek has suggested that if it were not for
Carsuel's training in this form of literacy and his decision to use it, Scottish Gaelic today may be employing, like the
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February 1559, the year following Earl Gilleasbaig Ruadh's death and the consequent succession of his son Gilleasbaig the fifth Earl of Argyll, the latter entrusted his stronghold of
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Meek, Donald E., "The Scots-Gaelic
Scribes of Late Medieval Perthshire: An Overview of the Orthography and Contents of the Book of the Dean of Lismore", in Janet Hadley Williams (ed.),
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In the late 19th century, his skeleton was dug up; the skeleton measured seven feet in length, making
Carsuel an extremely tall man by the standard of any era or geographical location.
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Black, Ronald, "The Gaelic
Literature of Galloway: 'Òran Bagraidh' and Willie Matheson", in Ansell, Michael, Black, Ronald & Cowan, Edward J. (eds.) (2022),
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in Argyll, but Robert Black has concluded that there is no evidence for this. He and Donald Meek consider it more likely that
Carsuel's birthplace was in the
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in 1565. Standing at over 7 feet (2.1 metres) in height, Carsuel was an important figure in the history of Scottish Gaelic, as in 1567 his
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It was during his time as Bishop of the Isles that Carsuel enacted the most important accomplishment of his life, the publication of
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by this time, and by the end of his life had acquired land all over the west coast of Scotland, and it was later said in a Gaelic
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Black, Ronald, "The Gaelic Literature of Galloway: 'Òran Bagraidh' and Willie Matheson", in Ansell, Michael, Black, Ronald &
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to the earl, and probably lay behind in possession by September 1550, and certainly by 14 October 1551, of the Treasurership of
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by Robert Lekprevik on 24 April 1567, it became the first book ever to be printed in either Scottish or
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into his hands too. During his occupation of Carnassarie, he "massively enlarged" the castle using
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