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Mongán mac Fiachnai

2571.
Toner (Gregory): Authority, verse and the transmission of senchas.
In Ériu 55 (2005), pp. 59–84.
Argues that the use of verse within narrative (prosimetrum) was a literary device consciously used by medieval Irish writers in order to imbue their texts with different degrees of veracity (testimonial, authoritative, corroborative).
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