A Celtic Florilegium7: Studies in Memory of Brendan O Hehir (Celtic Studies Publications)

Nineteen papers on early medieval Irish and Welsh texts. Contents include: St Patrick in Cornwall? The origin and transmission of Vita Tertia S. Patricii ( David Dumville ) ; Re-reading Dafydd ap Gwilym ( Patrick Ford ) ; The spoils of Annwn: Taliesin and material poetry ( Sarah Lynn Higley ) ; Aldfirth of Northumbria and the learning of a sapiens ( Colin Ireland ) ; Narrative openers and progress markers in Irish ( Proinsias Mac Cana ) ; The Hagiographic poetics of Canu Cadfan ( Catherine McKenna ) ; The introduction of alphabetic writing to Ireland ( Michael Richter ) ; Daring young men in their chariots ( Joseph Falaky Nagy ) ; The Celtic bard ( J. E. Caerwyn Bard ) .