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How does a written literature come into being within an oral culture, and how does such a literature achieve and maintain its authority? Joseph Falaky Nagy addresses those issues in his wide-ranging reading of the medieval literature of Ireland, from the writings of St. Patrick to the epic tales about the warrior Cú Chulainn. These texts, written in both Latin and Irish, constitute an adventurous and productive experiment in staging confrontations between the written and the spoken, the Christian and the pagan.
The early Irish literati, primarily clerics living within a monastic milieu, produced literature that included saints' lives, heroic sagas, law tracts, and other genres. They sought to invest their literature with an authority different from that of the traditions from which they borrowed, native and foreign. To achieve this goal, they cast many of their texts as the outcome of momentous dialogues between saints and angelic messengers or remarkable interviews with the dead, who could reveal some insight from the past that needed to be rediscovered by forgetful contemporaries. Conversing with angels and ancients, medieval Irish writers boldly inscribed their visions of the past onto the new Christian order and its literature.
Nagy includes portions of the original Latin and Irish texts that are not readily available to scholars, along with full translations.
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Stephen Walker
reviewed Conversing with Angels and Ancients: The Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland on April 08, 2020
Conversing with Angels and Ancients: The Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland
Kindled for free. I was reading this book to try and get some passive Old English vocabulary, after finishing all the grammar exercises by C. Smith () - Those grammar exercises are excellent by the way, they are almost unique for learning old english from scratch.
Since I was trying to pick up vocabularly passively I did not stop to look up words in dictionaries, so it was really useful that lots of the stories were biblical and ones which everyone knows, together with a few which I had never read before (much harder to understand) and some classics of Old English literature.
Its difficult to judge if the book has helped at all, since any learning I might have done is passive, but it was not too bad to read. I didn't feel there was any curve whatsoever -the texts were quite hard to read from the beginning, which made it more difficult. However, I did get through the book, although there were lots of stories I understood only small segments of. I'd say give it a try, especially since it is in the public domain and can be downloaded to an ebook reader for free!
My favourite parts:
{Extracts from Life of King Edmund which I'd read before}
HÄ«e Ä“odon Ã¾Ä sÄ“Ä‹ende and simle clipiende, swÄ swÄ hit Ä¡e•wunelic is þǣm þe on wuda gÄþ oft, 'hwÇ£r eart þū nÅ«, Ä¡e•fÄ“ra?' And him 130 andwyrde þæt hÄ“afod, 'hÄ“r, hÄ“r, hÄ“r;' and swÄ Ä¡e•lÅme clipode andswariende him eallum, swÄ oft swÄ hiera Ç£niÄ¡ clipode, oþ þæt hÄ«e ealle be•cÅmon þurh Ã¾Ä clipunge him tÅ.
...
ÃžÄ læġ se grÇ£ga wulf þe be•wiste þæt hÄ“afod, and mid his twÇ£m fÅtum hæfde þæt hÄ“afod be•clypped, grÇ£diÄ¡ and hungriÄ¡, 135 and for Gode ne dorste þæs hÄ“afdes on•byrÄ¡an, ac hÄ“old hit wiþ dÄ“or. ÃžÄ wurdon hÄ«e of•wundrode þæs wulfes hierd-rÇ£denne, and þæt hÄliÄ¡e hÄ“afod hÄm fÄ™redon mid him, þanciende þǣm Ælmihtigan ealra his wundra.
{fun to see Gaza called part of phillistea lande!}
Æfter þissum hÄ“ fÄ“rde tÅ PhilistÄ“a lande, intÅ Änre byriÄ¡ 35 on hiera onwealde, Gaza Ä¡e•hÄten.
{description of britain}
Breten Ä«eÄ¡-land is eahta hund mÄ«la lang, and twÄ hund mÄ«la brÄd; and hÄ“r sind on þǣm Ä«eÄ¡lande fÄ«f Ä¡e·þēodu: ĘnÄ¡lisc, Brettisc, Scyttisc, Pihtisc, and BÅc-læden. Ç¢rest wÇ£ron bÅ«end þisses landes Brettas. ÃžÄ cÅmon 5 of Armenia, and Ä¡e·sÇ£ton sūþan-wearde Bretene Ç£rest.
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