Orality in Medieval Irish Narrative: An Overview

George Danezis

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Oral Tradition 1/2 (1986): 272-301 Orality in Medieval Irish Narrative: An Overview Joseph Falaky Nagy Celtic scholars do not doubt that there was an active oral narrative tradition functioning in pre-Christian and medieval Christian Irish society. Until recently, tradition-bearers with amazingly large story-repertoires could be found among Gaelic-speaking peasants and fi shermen in Ireland and Scotland. These creative oral artists, often neglected and no longer listened to in their own time, bore vivid testimony to a long-lived and rich Gaelic tradition of stories and narrative techniques—a tradition that is often referred to in the extant corpus of medieval Irish

• tale airec menman uraird maic coisse
• passages
• generation to generation
• generation upon generation
• generation after generation
• generation by generation
• material
• oral tradition
• tale
• literary tradition

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• Exposé
• Dillon
• Bruford
• Narrative

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• Nombre de lectures: 11
• Langue: English

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