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Simms, Katharine, “Retiring bards: the motives behind the professional bards’ religious compositions”, Ériu 73 (2023): 97–103.

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Simms (Katharine)

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“Retiring bards: the motives behind the professional bards’ religious compositions”

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Ériu 73 (2023)

Ériu 73 (2023), Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.

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73

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97–103

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About one-fifth of the extant corpus of Bardic poetry consists of poems on religious themes. Why did professional Bardic poets, who made their living from praising worldly patrons, expend so much effort on religious verse? This paper offers some possible explanations.

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Irish bardic poetry

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