![]() ![]() The omissions are almost equally significant. The matter itself of the Auraicept is largely identical with that treated of by the Latin Grammarians in their early chapters-the alphabet, classification of letters, sounds and syllables, consonant and vowel changes, gender and declension of nouns, comparison of adjectives, prepositions governing dative and accusative cases, the accent, artificial and natural, genus and species, and a few other incidental points. ![]() If it be urged that the quotations from these authors are a late addition to the Auraicept by way of learned illustration, it is answered that in any case the general setting of the matter follows closely the didactic style of the grammarians, as the following examples, occurring passim, will show:. Some of them are cited by name, Priscian (A.D. cerd of Ladchend mic Bairchida, ⁊ cerd hi Chota ⁊ cerd hui Bicni, ⁊ cerd Béci.Ī brief study of the Auraicept is sufficient to convince one that the leading extraneous source is the Latin Grammarians. tenmláida ⁊ immas forosnai ⁊ dichetal do chennaib na tuaithe ⁊ dinshenchus, and all the principal tales of Ireland in order to relate them to the kings, lords, and gentlemen. dúili berla ⁊ clethchor choem ⁊ reicne roscadach ⁊ láide. dechnad mór, and two species of nedchnad mór are there reckoned, viz. the bard metres which the poet ought to know, for that is the poet's lesson of the seventh year e.g. nath becc ⁊ berla na filed.īrosnacha suad, i.e. oghum, besides regular oghum the Auraicept with its prologue and with its flexions l. The Fili, his Rank, Name, and Compositions, with the Rewards therefor, and his Retinue (2219–2254). 430), will show what place the Auraicept occupied in their studies. the later scheme in Joyce's Social Hist., i. The bards, on the other hand, were unprofessional, and more or less untrained, but they practised a large number of metres in which the filid also were required to become proficient. The filid were a strictly professional class, undergoing a rigorous training to fit them for their position. ![]() Owing to the advocacy of St Columba, himself a fili, they were suffered to continue, but under restrictions. One such rising was that at Drumketta, A.D. The people often rose up against the poets and attempted to repudiate their claims. According to their literary tradition Fenius, at their request, devised this language for them (195), and its obscurity was essential (21). The poets were a secret society with a language peculiar and intelligible to themselves only. The exercise of this potent weapon was moderated by rule (1935), certain forms of satire, such as tamall n-aire (1932), being forbidden in the Trefhocul and though the poets have been abolished by law for over a century, even at this day in certain districts the phrase, dheanamh aoir air, to satirise one, is not without its In general this was cheerfully paid the means for enforcing unwilling payment was satire. They claimed and used the right to quarter themselves and their retinue upon society (2221), and they exacted a fixed sum for their poetic compositions. The poets, filid, were a guild, making their own special laws,and exercising discipline upon their own members (2193). The Auraicept treats chiefly of the Ogham alphabet and grammar, but if the Trefhocul be included, it treats also of poetry in the strict sense. The poet-jurist, who, seated, gave judgments in verse, is probably referred to at lines 407,8. Filidecht covered the whole field of poetry, romance, history, biography, geography, grammar, antiquities, and law. The Handbook of the Learned, here edited for the first time, is a work that opens up many questions. ![]()
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