Deed of Murder
“A bard receives only half the honour price of a fili of the same rank.
The poet is a lay professional who has full nemed status. His honour price is ten séts, five ounces of silver or five milch cows. A woman poet is known as banfili and her honour price is the same as that of a man poet. The poet’s main function is to praise or to satirize. A poet derives his status from three skills: imbas forosna: encompassing knowledge which illuminates teinm laeda: breaking of marrow – going to the heart... of the matter dichetal di chennaub: coming from the head – he is able to extemporize on any occasion.
For every poem commissioned by a patron the poet should receive a duas (fee) depending on his rank and the nature of the composition. He must produce quality; if he doesn’t, he loses his nemed status. If the poet is not paid he has the right to satirize his patron.
‘Ulick has it all planned out. We’re going to go in two pucáns. We’ll put most of the men – all of them except the two bodyguards – into one pucán and then Ulick, myself, Conor, the O’Brien of Arra, Donán, and Fergal and Conall, of course, into the other one.MoreLess
The poet is a lay professional who has full nemed status. His honour price is ten séts, five ounces of silver or five milch cows. A woman poet is known as banfili and her honour price is the same as that of a man poet. The poet’s main function is to praise or to satirize. A poet derives his status from three skills: imbas forosna: encompassing knowledge which illuminates teinm laeda: breaking of marrow – going to the heart... of the matter dichetal di chennaub: coming from the head – he is able to extemporize on any occasion.
For every poem commissioned by a patron the poet should receive a duas (fee) depending on his rank and the nature of the composition. He must produce quality; if he doesn’t, he loses his nemed status. If the poet is not paid he has the right to satirize his patron.
‘Ulick has it all planned out. We’re going to go in two pucáns. We’ll put most of the men – all of them except the two bodyguards – into one pucán and then Ulick, myself, Conor, the O’Brien of Arra, Donán, and Fergal and Conall, of course, into the other one.MoreLess
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