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Seventh-century Gaelic law-tracts delineate professional poets (filid) who earned high social
status through formal training. These poets cooperated with the Church to create an innovative
bilingual intellectual culture in Old Gaelic and Latin. Bede described Anglo-Saxon students who
availed themselves of free education in Ireland at this culturally dynamic time. Gaelic
scholars called sapientes (wise ones) produced texts in Old Gaelic and Latin that demonstrate
how Anglo-Saxon students were influenced by contact with Gaelic ecclesiastical and secular
scholarship. Seventh-century Northumbria was ruled for over 50 years by Gaelic-speaking kings
who could access Gaelic traditions. Gaelic literary traditions provide the closest analogues
for Bede's description of Cædmon's production of Old English poetry. This ground-breaking study
displays the transformations created by the growth of vernacular literatures and bilingual
intellectual cultures. Gaelic missionaries and educational opportunities helped shape the
Northumbrian Golden Age  its manuscripts  hagiography  and writings of Aldhelm and Bede.

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