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Gaelic warfare. Irish gallowglass and kern. Drawing by Albrecht Dürer, 1521. Gaelic warfare was the type of warfare practiced by the Gaelic peoples (the Irish, Scottish, and Manx ), in the pre-modern period. Part of a series on. War.
The historical institution of the fían is known from references in early medieval Irish law tracts. A fían (plural fíana or fianna ) was a small band of roving hunter-warriors. [ 2 ] It was made up of landless young men of free birth, often young aristocrats , [ 3 ] "who had left fosterage but had not yet inherited the property needed to ...
In medieval Gaelic and Welsh society, a bard ( Scottish and Irish Gaelic) or bardd ( Welsh) was a professional poet, employed to compose elegies for his lord. If the employer failed to pay the proper amount, the bard would then compose a satire (c.f. fili, fáith ). In other Indo-European societies, the same function was fulfilled by skalds ...
Irish music is music that has been created in various genres on the island of Ireland . The indigenous music of the island is termed Irish traditional music. It has remained vibrant through the 20th and into the 21st century, despite globalising cultural forces. In spite of emigration and a well-developed connection to music influences from ...
Gallowglass. The Gallowglass (also spelled galloglass, gallowglas or galloglas; from Irish: gallóglaigh meaning "foreign warriors") were a class of elite mercenary warriors who were principally members of the Norse-Gaelic clans of Ireland and Scotland between the mid 13th century and late 16th century. It originally applied to Scots, who ...
Medieval music encompasses the sacred and secular music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, [1] from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. It is the first and longest major era of Western classical music and is followed by the Renaissance music; the two eras comprise what musicologists generally term as early music, preceding the common practice period.
Carnyx players (bottom right) on a panel from the Gundestrup Cauldron Sculpture depicting a bard with a lyre (Brittany, 2nd century BC). Deductions about the music of the ancient Celts of the La Tène period and their Gallo-Roman and Romano-British descendants of Late Antiquity rely primarily on Greek and Roman sources, as well as on archaeological finds and interpretations including the ...
Cú Chulainn ( / kuːˈkʌlɪn / koo-KUL-in[ 1][ 2] Irish: [kuːˈxʊlˠɪn̠ʲ] ⓘ ), is an Irish warrior hero and demigod in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, as well as in Scottish and Manx folklore. [ 3] He is believed to be an incarnation of the Irish god Lugh, who is also his father. [ 4][ 5][ 6] His mother is the mortal Deichtine ...