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- Old Irish was the first written vernacular language north of the Alps, and it first appeared in the margins of Latin manuscripts as early as the 6th century.
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It was used from c. 600 to c. 900. The main contemporary texts are dated c. 700–850; by 900 the language had already transitioned into early Middle Irish. Some Old Irish texts date from the 10th century, although these are presumably copies of texts written at an earlier time.
Old Irish can be divided into two periods: Early Old Irish, also called Archaic Irish (c. 7th century), and Old Irish (8th–9th century). One of the most notable Old Irish texts was the Senchas Már , a series of early legal tracts that are alleged to "have been redacted from a pre-Christian original by Saint Patrick."
In fact almost the only Old Irish documents that were written down at the time they were composed, and thus reached us in their original form, are Irish glosses to Latin religious or grammatical texts that were copied and used by Irish monks in Continental European monasteries: such are e.g. the Würzburg and Milan glosses and, respectively ...
Old Irish was first written in the Roman alphabet before the beginning of the 7th century which makes Irish the oldest written vernacular language north of the Alps. During the Middle Irish period (900-1200 AD) some loanwords came from the Scandinavian language, words like ‘pingin’ (penny), and ‘margadh’ (market), but Scandinavian had ...
The Fosterage of the House of Two Milk-pails. Scél Túain maic Cairill. The Tale of Tuan mac Carill. Suidigud Tellaich Temra. The Settling of the Manor of Tara. Eachtra Léithín. The Adventures of Leithin. Moí coire coir goiriath. The Hawk of Achill: selected verses.
views 3,527,087 updated. Latin and Old Irish Literacy. The oldest physically surviving examples of Irish-language literacy are a few hundred inscriptions written in the Morse code –like alphabet called ogham. Almost all of these simply record names of people.
Early Christian literature. Irish historical literature. Irish poetry. See also. References. Further reading. External links. Early Irish literature, is commonly dated from the 8th or 9th to the 15th century, a period during which modern literature in Irish began to emerge.
