Abstract:This set of miscellanea investigates a number of metrical and grammatical features of Classical Irish, in particular (1) the sandhi feature involving the collision of two s- sounds across word boundary, in both unstressed ~ stressed and stressed ~ stressed environments; (2) a brief analysis of the Classical Irish conjunctionless comparative construction corresponding to Old Irish maissiu máenib ‘more splendid than treasures’; and (3) an analysis of the reflexes in Classical Irish of the appositional genitive constructions of the Early-Irish type senóir cléirig ‘an old man who is a cleric’, that is ‘an old cleric’ and demon caillige ‘a demon of a hag’, that is ‘a terrifying hag’.
{"title":"Miscellanea on classical Irish: 1 cadad at -s s- boundaries. 2 the conjunctionless comparative. 3 the appositional genitive","authors":"D. Mcmanus","doi":"10.3318/eriu.2016.66.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/eriu.2016.66.9","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This set of miscellanea investigates a number of metrical and grammatical features of Classical Irish, in particular (1) the sandhi feature involving the collision of two s- sounds across word boundary, in both unstressed ~ stressed and stressed ~ stressed environments; (2) a brief analysis of the Classical Irish conjunctionless comparative construction corresponding to Old Irish maissiu máenib ‘more splendid than treasures’; and (3) an analysis of the reflexes in Classical Irish of the appositional genitive constructions of the Early-Irish type senóir cléirig ‘an old man who is a cleric’, that is ‘an old cleric’ and demon caillige ‘a demon of a hag’, that is ‘a terrifying hag’.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69515753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This paper investigates the nature of the hunt in Medieval Ireland. It confirms from the evidence of Fianaigecht material backed up by contemporary Classical Irish poetry that the hunt was in the nature of a drive and ambush rather than a chase; that two types of hound were used in the hunt, the gadhair to drive the quarry from its covert and the coin to hem it in by securing the corridor to the ambush site, where the latter were slipped on the quarry; that this practice was common in Scotland as well as in continental Europe at the time; and that the deployment of the hunt was an important part of the training of a young nobleman in Ireland. Crossover material reflecting parallels between hound and hero celebration is also investigated.
{"title":"Celebrating the canine II: the hunt in Medieval Ireland, with special reference to the evidence of Classical Irish poetry","authors":"D. Mcmanus","doi":"10.3318/eriu.2018.68.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/eriu.2018.68.4","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper investigates the nature of the hunt in Medieval Ireland. It confirms from the evidence of Fianaigecht material backed up by contemporary Classical Irish poetry that the hunt was in the nature of a drive and ambush rather than a chase; that two types of hound were used in the hunt, the gadhair to drive the quarry from its covert and the coin to hem it in by securing the corridor to the ambush site, where the latter were slipped on the quarry; that this practice was common in Scotland as well as in continental Europe at the time; and that the deployment of the hunt was an important part of the training of a young nobleman in Ireland. Crossover material reflecting parallels between hound and hero celebration is also investigated.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69515985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Varia III. 1. On the preposition for with the negative particle in Old Irish; 2. The River Níth","authors":"Liam Breatnach","doi":"10.3318/eriu.2017.67.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/eriu.2017.67.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69516412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"VARIA II: The ainm coimhleanamhna","authors":"Damian McManus","doi":"10.1353/eri.2012.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eri.2012.0000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66309337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Varia I. The use of an overt subject with a third-person verb + nota augens","authors":"Chantal Kobel","doi":"10.3318/eriu.2015.65.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/eriu.2015.65.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3318/eriu.2015.65.7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48095440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article describes the use of agent phrases with the so-called autonomous forms of the verb in Irish since the seventeenth century. As in earlier stages of the language, three prepositions were used to mark the agent: le, ag and ó. Of these, le (earlier la) had been predominant since the Old Irish period and it remained so in eighteenth-century verse; its use to mark agents declined rapidly thereafter. The use of ag to form agent phrases lingered into the mid-twentieth century in spoken narration, and ó remains in use locally to the present day. Despite the decline in their spoken use, agent phrases (with ag) became well established again in some genres of written Irish in the course of the twentieth century, especially in official documents and in journalism. The linguistic implications of these developments are discussed briefly.
{"title":"Agent Phrases with the Autonomous Verb in Modern Irish","authors":"Diarmuid Ó Sé","doi":"10.1353/eri.2006.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eri.2006.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article describes the use of agent phrases with the so-called autonomous forms of the verb in Irish since the seventeenth century. As in earlier stages of the language, three prepositions were used to mark the agent: le, ag and ó. Of these, le (earlier la) had been predominant since the Old Irish period and it remained so in eighteenth-century verse; its use to mark agents declined rapidly thereafter. The use of ag to form agent phrases lingered into the mid-twentieth century in spoken narration, and ó remains in use locally to the present day. Despite the decline in their spoken use, agent phrases (with ag) became well established again in some genres of written Irish in the course of the twentieth century, especially in official documents and in journalism. The linguistic implications of these developments are discussed briefly.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47505574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The banqueting hall (tech midchúarta) of Tara is vividly described in a variety of medieval Irish sources. This paper examines descriptions of the physical layout and social regulation of the banqueting hall in some of these sources with a view to retrieving how their authors understood its form and function, and assesses evidence associating the banqueting hall with the cursus monument in Tara known today as Tech Midchúarta.
{"title":"DINDṠENCHAS AND THE TECH MIDCHÚARTA","authors":"Clodagh Downey","doi":"10.3318/ERIU.2010.60.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/ERIU.2010.60.1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The banqueting hall (tech midchúarta) of Tara is vividly described in a variety of medieval Irish sources. This paper examines descriptions of the physical layout and social regulation of the banqueting hall in some of these sources with a view to retrieving how their authors understood its form and function, and assesses evidence associating the banqueting hall with the cursus monument in Tara known today as Tech Midchúarta.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47968431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/ERIU.2007.57.121
K. Simms
Abstract:Many of the most eminent judges of Brehon Law in late medieval and early modern Ireland were proficient poets also, and the poetic art was studied in their law schools. It is argued here that this practice arose on a number of grounds. The poets taught the correct grammar and spelling of classical Irish, used by the lawyers in their pleadings. Irish literature supplied a fund of past mythical judgements customarily cited in the Old Irish law tracts as precedents. Poetic utterance was seen as an invocation of divine judgement, and traditionally the early poets were said to have functioned as judges. The law tracts also refer to a 'judge of poetic speech' (brithem bélrai filedachtae), though the precise meaning of the phrase is open to discussion.
{"title":"THE POETIC BREHON LAWYERS OF EARLY SIXTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND","authors":"K. Simms","doi":"10.3318/ERIU.2007.57.121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/ERIU.2007.57.121","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Many of the most eminent judges of Brehon Law in late medieval and early modern Ireland were proficient poets also, and the poetic art was studied in their law schools. It is argued here that this practice arose on a number of grounds. The poets taught the correct grammar and spelling of classical Irish, used by the lawyers in their pleadings. Irish literature supplied a fund of past mythical judgements customarily cited in the Old Irish law tracts as precedents. Poetic utterance was seen as an invocation of divine judgement, and traditionally the early poets were said to have functioned as judges. The law tracts also refer to a 'judge of poetic speech' (brithem bélrai filedachtae), though the precise meaning of the phrase is open to discussion.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47589701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TWO EARLY EXAMPLES OF THE PREPOSITION \"ACHT\" FOLLOWED BY THE ACCUSATIVE CASE OUTSIDE THE LAW TEXTS AND AN EXAMPLE OF \"ACHT INGE\"","authors":"R. de Vries","doi":"10.1353/eri.2010.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eri.2010.0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66309282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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