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