crosánacht

Gaelic literary genre

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place in Gaelic literature

  • St. Columba
    In Celtic literature: Bardic verse

    …from praise poetry was the crosánacht (from the Irish word crosán, meaning a jester or satirist), in which verse was frequently interspersed with humorous or satirical prose passages.

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