14901.
Neville
(Grace): Short shrouds and sharp shrews: echoes of Jacques de Vitry in the
dánta grádha
.
In
The fragility of her sex
(1996), pp. 87–100.
Compares the French (Vitry) and Irish (
Dánta gr
.² nº 83 [pp. 108-111], lines 9-60.) versions of the exemplum of the woman who refuses to provide an adequate shroud for her dying husband.
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F 4.1 Literature and learning: Comparative literature: General and various
H 4.2.2 Verse: Particular poets and poems: Modern Irish: Anonymous authorship, uncertain
Indexes:
First Lines of Verse:
Mairg do-ni cumann le mnáibh!