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808. Druididh suas a chuaine an chaointe•
Length: very long 79 qq
Certainty: 1
Period:
  1. 17th mid
Areas:
  1. Munster
Classes:
  1. elegy mp
Manuscripts:
  1. RIA 490(23/N/15)MmcPUiLongain 1740-
  2. RIA 257 (23/G/24) M.Og OLongain
  3. Mayn. M 7 Peadar O Longain
Prints:
  1. text Mac Giolla Eain, Danta Ceitinn, pp. 48-59
Motifs:
  1. qualities of character
  2. nobility of ancestry
  3. functions of poetry
  4. patron’s liberality to poet
  5. poet-patron relationship q. vi
  6. nature’s mourning
  7. symptoms of grief q. lxxviii
  8. poet on grave
  9. legal terminology q. xxvi
  10. historical comparisonsq
Poet Christian Names:
  1. Seathrun (RIA 490?)
Poet Surnames:
  1. Ceitinn
Patron Christian Names:
  1. Eamonn mac Piarais
Patron Surnames:
  1. Butler Lord Dunboyne d. 1640
Apologue Subclasses:
  1. Jason and the Golden Fleece
Meter Vars:
  1. Amhran
Poem:
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