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Elegy of St. Columba
work by Dallán Forgaill
Also known as: “Amra Choluim Chille”
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…the Amra Choluim Chille, or Elegy of St. Columba, one of the earliest Irish poems of any length. The poem was composed after St. Columba’s death in the alliterative, accentual poetic form of the period, in stanzas of irregular length. It has survived in the language of later transcripts; its…
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