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- ISSN: 0332-1592
- E-ISSN: 2034-6506
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The Old-Irish Hymn ‘Brigit Bé Bithmaith’
- Brepols
- Publication: Peritia, Volume 22-23, Issue 1, Jan 2011, p. 182 - 187
Abstract
Abstract
The essay analyses the prosody of the earliest extant Old-Irish hymn, Brigit be bithmaith, attributed to bishop Ultán moccu Conchobuir of Ard Breccáin near Navan in county Meath, inferring from elements of composition similar to those of the Hiberno-Latin hymn Xpistus in nostra insula a further indication of Ultán’s authorship of that poem.
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