CLT 2131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: High King, Irish Bardic Poetry, Scotland Today
15 Dec 2015
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Bardic poet - poet associated with a royal family. Dafydd ap gwilym - one of the greatest celtic poets of all time. Richard iii - killed by a welshman. Life of st. kea - includes king arthur. Celt is avoided in academic world - construct dates back to 17th century. Continental celts - didn"t survive culturally and linguistically into middle ages. France is very celtic country - gaulish (latin or greek alphabet) Britain was celtic speaking island until colonies arrived. Left as semi-roman colony - mostly semi-bilingual. Further south is more latin than celtic. Later on (migration), celtic is more west (wales, cornwall) and north. Only a few languages survived into modern times (strathclyde, cumbria, elmet, gododdin) Irish language was the language of ireland until c1850. Importance of hereditary social structures - highly aristocratic. 4 provinces of ireland - high king, lesser kings of provinces. Medieval ireland split up into sections help by families and native irish, anglo-irish lords,
