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- ISSN: 0332-1592
- E-ISSN: 2034-6506
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What Constitutes the Learning of a Sapiens? The Case of Cenn Fáelad
- Brepols
- Publication: Peritia, Volume 27, Issue 1, Jan 2016, p. 63 - 78
Abstract
Abstract
An aetiological legend relates that Cenn Fáelad sapiens (†679) was exposed to légend, fénechas, and filidecht and subsequently authored or ‘renewed’ several surviving texts. The ecclesiastical training of most sapientes is easily identified, but Cenn Fáelad’s is obliquely suggested and only vernacular texts are attributed to him. This essay attempts to discern the nature of Cenn Fáelad’s learning as a sapiens.
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