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Irish tract on the seven grades of poets (NLS Adv. 72.1.7 f. 8)

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An Irish legal tract on the seven grades of poets (filid). It is one of several prose and verse texts on the subject that ultimately derive from the Uraicecht becc.

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Text

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.7 

incipit: Treidhe dleaghar don ollam fhilidh and so sis   

f. 8ra-8vb  

Sources

Secondary sources (select)

Breatnach, Liam [ed. and tr.], Uraicecht na ríar: the poetic grades in early Irish law, Early Irish Law Series, 2, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1987.

14–16; App. 6