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Iona

Name: Iona
SKU: 9780748605316
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The Earliest Poetry of a Celtic Monastery

Thomas Clancy (Lecturer in the Department of Celtic, University of Glasgow), Gilbert Márkus (Affiliate Researcher, University of Glasgow)

Iona

The Earliest Poetry of a Celtic Monastery

Thomas Clancy (Lecturer in the Department of Celtic, University of Glasgow), Gilbert Márkus (Affiliate Researcher, University of Glasgow)

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Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

ISBN: 9780748605316

Number of Pages: 282

Published: 01/04/1995

Width: 13.8 cm

Height: 21.6 cm

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Eight rare poems, written at Iona monastery between 563AD and the early 8th century, translated from the original Latin and Gaelic and fully annotated with literary commentary.

Attributed to Columbia - "Altus Prosator", "Adiutor Laborantium; Noli Pater; Dallan Forgaill (c 600) - "Amra Choluimb Chille (elegy for Columbia); Beccan mac Luigdech (c 650) - "Fo Reir Choluimb" (Bound to Colum), "To-fed andes (He brings Northward); Adomnan (D 704) - "Colum Cille"; Cu Chuimne - (D 747) "Cantemus in omne die" (Hymn to Mary).

Thomas Clancy (Lecturer in the Department of Celtic, University of Glasgow), Gilbert Márkus (Affiliate Researcher, University of Glasgow)

Thomas Clancy is Lecturer in the Department of Celtic at the University of Glasgow. Gilbert Márkus is Affiliate Researcher (Celtic and Gaelic) at the University of Glasgow.