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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987206
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My first acquaintance with the work of Eleanor Knott came in my third year as a history undergraduate at Trinity College, when I prepared myself to start using Bardic poetry as a historical source by auditing Dr May Risk's class on Classical Irish poetry, using Knott's Irish Syllabic Poetry 1200–1600 as our textbook. I was almost immediately mystified by the heading Miss Knott attached to the second poem in the book: 'An Inaugural Ode'. Brian Ó Ruairc mo rogha leannán is a graceful three-quatrain composition in séadnadh by Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird, which looks to me like a thank-you letter for some gift or other from his patron.1
Brian Ó Ruairc mo rogha leannán
lór a bhuga ag bronnadh séad;
's is lór a chruas i
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/809/image/coversmallKingship and the Bardic Poets2026-04-06text/htmlen-USKingship and the Bardic Poets2026-04-062026TWOProject MUSE®1193332026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-06The O'Donohue Lives of the Codex Salmanticensis: A Return to the Question of Dating
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987207
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In his Medieval Irish Saints' Lives, Richard Sharpe laid out his reasons for thinking that a group of ten Saints' Lives contained in a fourteenth-century manuscript (Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 7672-7674, or the Codex Salmanticensis, hereafter S)1 could be dated to the period 750–850.2 This group of texts in S, according to Sharpe, represents an almost exact copy of an archetype (Ф) that also lay behind the copies of these Lives found in the other late medieval hagiographical collections. While the importance of Sharpe's identification of this group in S has been recognized, some of the evidence on which he relied for his dating, particularly the orthographic evidence of the Irish names found in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/809/image/coversmallThe O'Donohue Lives of the Codex Salmanticensis: A Return to the Question of Dating2026-04-06text/htmlen-USThe O'Donohue Lives of the Codex Salmanticensis: A Return to the Question of Dating2026-04-062026TWOProject MUSE®3021972026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-06A Fhir Iomtha an Aosa Téad: Aoir Ar Reacaire
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987208
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Is éard atá sa dán A fhir iomtha an aosa téad aoir ghairid ar reacaire anaithnid. Cuirtear an ceol a chasann sé (mar thionlacan, glacaim leis, lena chuid reacaireachta) i gcomparáid le searbhas na gafainne (1d), agus tugtar le tuiscint go mbíonn drochéifeacht aige ar an bhfile (2c). Díríonn an file ar reic na filíochta ansin, a ndéantar cur síos air mar bhúireach ard [fh]arránda (4b) agus mar nual[l] seanchon ar seachrán (5d). Is ar an gceol a dhíríonn an file arís i rann deireanach an dáin (rann 6). Tá an-chosúlacht idir an téacs seo agus dornán aortha ar chláirseoirí a cumadh ag deireadh na tréimhse clasaicí idir ábhar, theanga agus stíl.1Leagtar an dán go hindíreach ar Eochaidh Ó hEódhasa i Leabhar Uí
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/809/image/coversmallA Fhir Iomtha an Aosa Téad: Aoir Ar Reacaire2026-04-06text/htmlen-USA Fhir Iomtha an Aosa Téad: Aoir Ar Reacaire2026-04-062026TWOProject MUSE®462662026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-06The Three Lubai Gall in Bretha Déin Chécht
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987209
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Tantalizingly little is known about medieval Irish medical thought prior to the appearance of Irish medical manuscripts in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century.1 This is hardly surprising, of course: earlier textual sources (e.g., legal texts, annals, narrative prose) were not intended as medical compendia. As a result, references to medical conditions and treatment in early texts are often lacking in detail, or involve terms that are difficult, if not impossible, for a modern reader to interpret.What we can glean from narrative literature is that medieval Irish scholars were at least cognizant of (and made use of) continental European and Arabic medical tradition. References to surgical knowledge
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/809/image/coversmallThe Three Lubai Gall in Bretha Déin Chécht2026-04-06text/htmlen-USThe Three Lubai Gall in Bretha Déin Chécht2026-04-062026TWOProject MUSE®833502026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-06The Cíarraige Brotherhood Pact
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987210
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The text which is here edited under the title 'The Cíarraige Brotherhood Pact' is also known as 'The West Munster Synod', 'The Cíarraige Chiefdom Alliance', and 'Mac Ardae's Synod'. It is found in the fifteenth-century Bodleian manuscript, Laud Misc. 610 (folios 103rb22 to 104ra2). In his 'Laud Genealogies and Tribal Histories', Kuno Meyer (1912, 315–16) provided a diplomatic edition of this text. Though quite short, the text is of interest for the light it sheds on the political history of West Munster in the late eighth and early ninth centuries when it was likely first written down (Ó Corráin 1968, 48; 1969, 31–2). As Binchy (1976, 20) pointed out, it also gives insights into the language of law in early
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/809/image/coversmallThe Cíarraige Brotherhood Pact2026-04-06text/htmlen-USThe Cíarraige Brotherhood Pact2026-04-062026TWOProject MUSE®1995462026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-06Varia
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987211
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DIL offers two meanings in its entry 1 coibche; the second and evidently older of these, 'bargain, contract; payment in general', does not concern us here. The other sense given in the entry is 'bride-price (paid to father of bride or to bride…or divided between them)': this definition reflects the careful analysis of the term by Rudolf Thurneysen, which has provided the basis for discussions by subsequent scholars.2 In some narratives, the coibche does not involve a material payment alone: a famous example is Medb's statement, in the 'pillow talk' scene in the Book of Leinster Táin, that she had demanded 'the strange coibche which no woman before me had ever demanded of a man of the men of Ireland: a husband
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987212
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The following abbreviations may be used without further explanation.D. McManus and E. Ó Raghallaigh, A Bardic miscellany: five hundred Bardic poems from manuscripts in Irish and British libraries, Léann na Tríonóide/Trinity Irish Studies 2. (Dublin, 2010).E. Mac Cárthaigh, The art of Bardic poetry: a new edition of Irish Grammatical Tracts I (Dublin, 2014).W. Stokes and K. Meyer, Archiv für celtische Lexikographie (3 vols, Halle a. S., 1898–1907).J. O'Donovan, Annála Ríoghachta Éireann: Annals of the kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters (7 vols, Dublin, 1848–51).S. Mac Airt, The Annals of Inisfallen (Dublin, 1951).L. McKenna, Aithdioghluim Dána, ITS 37, 40 (Dublin, 1939 and 1940).R. Atkinson, W.N. Hancock, W.M.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/809/image/coversmallAbbreviations2026-04-06text/htmlen-USAbbreviations2026-04-062026TWOProject MUSE®118912026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-04-06