Argues that the reference to ‘white, weak arms’ used in the description of the maiden in Aislinge Meic Conglinne lines 1169-1170 is a topos inherited from the Indo-European poetic language.
Edition of a wordlist of uncertain origin, containing forms of an undetermined East Ulster dialect with idiosyncratic phonetic annotations. It is argued that it was compiled by Seán Mac Airt on the basis of MS material dating from ca. 1900.
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