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... early record of the Wexford dialect , and we can dismiss it fairly briefly ; several of our texts reproduce the dialect of Fingall , 20 and in due course this will need to be dis- cussed at greater length . The earliest evidence comes ...
... early record of the Wexford dialect , and we can dismiss it fairly briefly ; several of our texts reproduce the dialect of Fingall , 20 and in due course this will need to be dis- cussed at greater length . The earliest evidence comes ...
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... earliest Scandinavian settlements , and its population quickly developed distinctive characteristics : As early as 856 , within a generation of the first settlements , we begin to hear of a mixed population of Norse Irish , the Gall ...
... earliest Scandinavian settlements , and its population quickly developed distinctive characteristics : As early as 856 , within a generation of the first settlements , we begin to hear of a mixed population of Norse Irish , the Gall ...
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... early as 1450 in the romance of Sir Amadace : " Hi - fath , ther will him non mon butte I " [ NED s.v. faith 12.b. , MED s.v. feith 8 ( c ) ] . If fate in the lines from Skelton quoted above , p . 178 , means ' faith ' , this is another ...
... early as 1450 in the romance of Sir Amadace : " Hi - fath , ther will him non mon butte I " [ NED s.v. faith 12.b. , MED s.v. feith 8 ( c ) ] . If fate in the lines from Skelton quoted above , p . 178 , means ' faith ' , this is another ...
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THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND II | 11 |
DESCRIPTION OF THE TEXTS | 31 |
TEXTS | 76 |
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