An Chraobh Airgid

Idea

The filid

filí · Old Irish filid

Poets, seers and keepers of lore, ranked in seven grades.

Open it on the full site There every name opens, and a web shows who is kin to whom.

An eighth-century law tract, Uraicecht na Ríar, ranks them from the fochloc at the bottom to the ollam at the top. Your title in the Crane Bag rises through the same seven grades.

In the tales

  • The Colloquy of the Ancients The last two of the Fianna part in tears. One goes into a hill to his mother; the other finds Patrick blessing Fionn’s old fort, and tells him the story of every hill.

See also

  • The Crane Bag Manannán’s bag of treasures, full at high tide and empty at the ebb.

Sources

Medieval manuscript. Written down by Irish scholars between the eighth and seventeenth centuries.

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