Early Irish bairdne ‘eulogy,panegyric’

Authors

• Tomás Ó Cathasaigh Harvard

Abstract

Early Irish bairdne, according to DIL, s.v., means ‘bardic craft, bardic composition, bardic metre’. My interest in this topic centres on the final quatrain in the ninth-century panegyric beginning Áed oll fri andud n-áne, which has been edited and translated by Stokes and Strachan (1901-1903, Vol. 2, 295).