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A Brief Introduction to the History of Irish Literature
Some of the scribes and writers would have been monks, but not all. Some of them were lay scholars working in ecclesiastical schools. But all of them composed within a christian context. The saga narratives are inhabiting this kind of story world that is set in a pre christian irelanda many centuries before the stories are actually being written.
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